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Sleep tracking apps on Android will soon use less power Android apps that have to run in the background like sleep-trackers have had a rough time. Among other things, they suffer inconsistent and unreliable background app limitations across different Android versions, which can interfere with how the apps work at a very fundamental level. This doesn't fix  that issue, but today Google is rolling out a specific API just for those apps, letting them pull sleep duration data right from the system itself. The API is built into the existing Activity Recognition suite, which (if you allow it) can ...

Google's new Sleep API for Android will give developers tools for tracking users' sleep that better for battery.

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....

Google’s Sleep API to Improve Sleep Tracking, Save Your Phone Battery Google Sleep API will come built in the Google Play Services. By Sourabh Kulesh | Updated: 26 February 2021 18:48 IST Photo Credit: Google 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 wil...

Google to improve urban GPS accuracy for apps Originally posted in the Android Developers Blog, the following is reprinted with permission from authors Frank van Diggelen, principal engineer, and Jennifer Wang, product manager, Google. At Android, we want to make it as easy as possible for developers to create the most helpful apps for their users. That’s why we aim to provide the best location experience with our APIs like the Fused Location Provider API (FLP). However, we’ve heard from many of you that the biggest location issue is inaccuracy in dense urban areas, such as wrong-side-of-...