Google announces low-power sleep tracking app on Android
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Tracking your sleeping patterns with wearable devices can be easy and convenient, but not much can be said about tracking your sleep on Android smartphones as it can drain your battery life. Well, that is about to change with Google Sleep API.
Tech giant Google has announced that it is making its Sleep API publicly available. The company says it is an Android Activity Recognition API that surfaces information about the userâs sleep. It can also be used to power features like the Bedtime mode clock. The API also uses an on-device artificial intelligence model that uses the deviceâs light and motion sensors as inputs.
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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.
Google is making its Sleep API publicly available.
The API is used to power features like Bedtime mode in Google s Clock app.
Developers can now use the Sleep API as part of the latest Google Play Services.
Google has decided to make its Sleep API publicly available to help Android users stay informed about their sleep and allow developers to create great sleep tracking apps that have minimal impact on battery life. Most developers currently use detection algorithms that are inconsistent between apps. When multiple apps check for changes in user activity independently and continuously, your phone s battery drains faster than usual.
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Highlights
Sleep As Android uses Google Sleep API
Sleep As Android can be downloaded from the Android Store
Google Sleep API is being made publicly available, and this will allow sleep tracking apps on Android smartphones use less power to detect sleep patterns, the tech company said. The Sleep API will be built right into Google Play Services, and will centralise sleep detection processing. It is one the Activity Recognition APIs which, “with the user s permission, can detect user s activities such as whether a user is biking or walking”. Google has collaborated with Urbandroid, the developer of the popular alarm app, Sleep As Android, for this.
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