Launching fitbit ios app from my own ios app

[ajonios]

Hello,

I have a requirement to launch fitbit ios app from my own ios app. The reason is I want to use the fitbit data in offline mode, if I make an app that connects with the fitbit and get the data from the fitbit HR to my app I will need to use the API as I know we cannot get any data directly from the fitbit deveice directly.

Now this data comes over the cloud using fitbit APIs which is not realtime. So I thought to quickly create an button on my app that when pressed will launch the fitbit app itself by app switching on iOS.

BUt I am not able to find any URL Scheme that fitbit provides do accompolosh the same hence dropping this question here.

Any help or idea would be appreciated.

Thanks

-AJ

[SunsetRunner]

@ajonios

Moved your post from the Charge HR to the Web API section to increase the chance of getting a solution.

Wishing a wonderful day

[vishaluae]

Hi,

Would like to know if there is any update on this. I am trying to integarte the same in my app as well.

Thanks!

[TEvashkevich]

I don't think it's possible to get data from the Fitbit app itself. 

AFAIK you can only receive it through the web API (since it wouldn't make a ton of sense to be able to just grab it from the app on the phone cause it could be "not Authorized" to do so for instance)

[vishaluae]

So the OP and I are not trying to fetch data from the app directly. Instead we would like to know if there is any particular URL scheme for the iOS FitBit app.

So on tap of a button from our app, we can cal this URL sheme to launch the iOS FitBit app. The user can sync the data with the FitBit servers. Once this is done, the user can then jump back to our app, which will then fetch data from the FitBit API.

[JeremiahFitbit]

This is a planned feature, but is not currently available.

What other implementations have done is call the Get Devices endpoint to get the last sync time and prompt the user to open the Fitbit app to sync if they have not recently synced.

[KamilHypemobile]

Jeremiah, is this feature (custom url scheme to launch Fitbit application form another one) had been implemented ?

If yes, what is custom URL scheme for Fitbit app ?

If not, when we can expect it ?