Android Sleep API to make sleep tracking apps more efficient
JC Torres - Feb 25, 2021, 7:19pm CST
There has been perhaps an overabundance of focus on activity trackers, most of them targeting, well, activities. While movement and exercise are, of course, important, they aren’t the only measures of a healthy lifestyle. Sleep is just as important, perhaps even more so these days. In an effort to help app developers and, consequently, users develop better sleeping habits, Google is launching its new Sleep API to empower better low-power sleep tracking on all Android devices.
There are already a handful of sleep tracking apps on Android that may sound almost too little, too late for this Sleep API. All those apps, however, use their own detection algorithms and strategies to determine whether a user is sleeping or has woken up. At the very least, these apps need to run in the background in order to work.