Here's a little plugin that I needed to create for one of my apps, and thought others might find it useful as well. As far as I can tell, it's the only plugin utilizing Apple's Healthkit right now. This means that your app doesn't need to be open to record the steps you have taken, which is HUGE. This plugin will track your daily steps, and pulls the info directly from the device's Health app. Pedometer Plugin: https://www.buzztouch.com/plugins/plugin.php?pid=26ED711DB82F0323051F012

Sweet mama! :-)

Nicely done! Cheers! -- Smug

Nice! LA

Thanks guys. I was a little hesitant about using Healthkit, since it's iOS 8.0and above, but I found it amazing that over 80% of iOS users are up to date (over 82% for iPhone only... stats are from https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats ). Granted, I could have used CoreMotion to include all iOS versions (for iPhone 5s and above, using the M7 chip), but it's based on regular motion and isn't nearly as accurate, and after seeing that over 80% of the market can use Healthkit, I went that route. Keep an eye out for my new Plugin called "Fitness" that will be coming out soon. It will have the Pedometer function built in, as well as distance walked/ran, and a few other Healthkit tidbits in it as well... possibly heart rate, and a few other things. iOS 9's Healthkit will enable the ability to add sexual health and menstrual cycles as well, but I don't see those being included in the Fitness plugin, at least not right away, unless I include every possible option of Healthkit and have the developer choose what to display in the control panel... that's a possibility.

Awesome that you're tackling the healthkit stuff, Ninja! I'm working on a health-related app but all my time is going on overall design and content of product. Wish I was able to tackle these new kits as they come out. I've been using the Activity app on the Apple Watch and part of me really wants to be on the bleeding edge of all this stuff as it comes out :)

Yeah, same here. I'm actually adding some watchkit stuff to an app as we speak, which is why I needed the HealthKit stuff. I plan on adding glances to the apple watch for steps taken and distance walked/ran for the day, and watch notifications based on geo fencing will be next. Hopefully Chris's GeoFence plugin will do the heavy lifting for me on that end. Unfortunately an apple watch plugin will be a little more difficult than most, as it requires special entitlements and files, but I'll look into it after I get it hard coded and working in my app. Pulling the data from HealthKit was the first step though, which I was able to do.

I haven't been on the BT site for awhile with Summer in full-swing. Saw this and sounds cool to be using the Health Kit. Way to go Ninja! Looking forward to your fitness plugin also.

Cool!

I just uploaded version 1.1, which enables tracking of total miles or kilometers walked or ran for the day, in addition to just the total number of steps taken.

Sweet...I can definitely put this to good use! Thank you, thank you!

I've updated the plugin. It now tracks total steps taken, distance walked or ran (in miles or kilometers) and total flights of stairs climbed. I've also updated all the screen shots on the plugin page to reflect the new changes. Click below to see the new update ============================================================== PEDOMETER PLUGIN: https://www.buzztouch.com/plugins/plugin.php?pid=26ED711DB82F0323051F012 ==============================================================

Looks like I'll be holding off on the "Fitness" plugin, at least for now. Stuck on some code for the heart rate stuff, and nobody responded to my stack overflow question on it (located at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31440205/heart-rate-with-apples-healthkit ), so I moved on to the calorie burning part, and also ran into some issues. I might come back to it at some point, but for now, I'm just going to be supporting the Pedometer plugin, which has total steps, distance ran/walked, and flights of stairs climbed.