Ouch. Is this going to give our developers another unnecessary workload as we have to update our apps and integrations? Is there at least somewhere I can read about the benefits of switching to Health Connect?
Speed. Fit warehoused and brokered data centrally via OAuth which is far slower a local-local system API integration.
https://developer.android.com/health-and-fitness/guides/heal...
I think this is a much better design for this perimedical data, but it's absolutely going to be harder to do some things now you have to interact directly with a device API.
Especially since health connect will require you to update your minimum targets!