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Wearable integration, written by the people who did it

Long-form, dated and specific. Each guide covers one thing that costs teams a sprint: provider access, on-device stores, webhook design, migrations and compliance.

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1 Sept 2026·14 min readarchitectureoauthwebhooks

How to integrate wearable data into your app (2026 guide)

Build vs buy, the OAuth and webhook plumbing per provider, normalisation, revisions, rate limits and a launch checklist for shipping wearable integrations.

1 Sept 2026·9 min readgarminprovider access

Garmin Health API access: what it takes and what to do meanwhile

Why Garmin data is gated behind a business agreement, what the Health and Activity APIs actually provide, and how to design so Garmin can be added later.

1 Sept 2026·10 min readapple healthhealth connectmobile sdk

Apple HealthKit vs Google Health Connect for developers

Neither has a cloud API. How the two on-device stores differ in permissions, background delivery, history and what an aggregator can and cannot do for you.

1 Sept 2026·11 min readwebhooksarchitecture

Webhooks vs polling for wearable data: rate limits, revisions and delivery

Why polling wearable APIs fails past a few hundred users, how each vendor implements webhooks differently, and how to design an idempotent consumer.

1 Sept 2026·9 min readhealth connectmigration

Google Fit is deprecated: migrating to Health Connect

Google Fit APIs are deprecated in favour of Health Connect. What actually changes — server-pull becomes device-push — and how to migrate without losing history.

1 Sept 2026·8 min readdpdpcomplianceindia

DPDP and health data in India: what it means for your wearable integration

What India's DPDP Act means for wearable and health data: consent, purpose limitation, data principal rights, breach duties and how to design for them.

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