Next time your workout involves Nordic walking, Australian football, or polo, you can note that in Fit.
added over 100 new descriptors to detail your workouts in the latest version of its Fit Android app. The new options pop up when you enter a new workout or edit a previous activity.
By tracking your movements through your phone’s accelerometer or a connected Android ar smartwatch, Fit spits out various charts data sets to detail whether you’re staying active.
Select any of over 100 different physical activities when entering your workout data in Fit.
The app update also adds an experimental feature that continues tracking your steps even if your smartwatch disconnects from its paired phone. Currently, if you walk too far away from your phone, or the phone’s battery dies, the smartwatch loses the ability to count up your steps.
The updated version of Fit is making the usual, slow rollout through the ay Store. If you don’t want to wait, grab the A.
y this matters: is making a big push for its new fitness tracking platform, which it hopes will serve as the hub for all your health exercise data. But it’s missing support from some of the major players in the wearable field, like Fitbit wbone. ( is even running a contest to encourage developers to build apps that plug in to Fit). Adding these features could help, if they attract more users to the platform—that’s key— offer more toys for the developers to play with as well.
