Summary

HealthKit provides a central repository for health and fitness data on iOS devices. With the user’s permission, your container app can communicate with the HealthKit store to access this data.

HealthKit is used in your SpotMe-powered app to count the steps each app user makes during a certain event timeframe.

The steps count activity could be set up and used as part of the Activity challenge module, the idea of which is to incentivize actions within the app and encourage competition.

Based on the number of steps made, users are assigned a predefined amount of points for participating in the activity.

HealthKit requirements

The below requirements need to be met to use HealthKit in your app:

• HealthKit service must be enabled for the App ID under Apple Developer.
  
  
• A new provisioning profile with enabled HealthKit must be generated.
  
  
• The app description must explicitly mention the use of HealthKit in the app.
  • For example: “The app can access data from the Health app, if permission is granted, to improve your event experience.”
    
    
• Activity challenge with steps count must be set up on the workspace.

Learn how to enable HealthKit for your app.