Android Update! Automatically post distances to your mission from other fitness trackers.

Update: October 2016 – Please note that our Google Fit connection is being deprecated due to a lack of developer support for the product. While Google Fit remains in the Android App, we no longer offer support for it. Google Fit can still be used in an “as is where is” manner. We have since built direct connections with other fitness apps such as Runkeeper, Strava, Fitbit and Under Armour.

Now you can automatically post distances to your mission from a huge range of fitness apps and wearable devices via Google Fit on your Android phone (See here for iPhone version)

Please note that this new feature is currently still in beta, meaning it might not work exactly as it should!
(So please just contact us with any concerns rather than leaving a poor review on the app store – don’t be THAT guy!)

Not that you are lazy or anything, but it would be quite nice to not have to remember to do it manually, right?

What you’ll need

• An Android mobile running Android 2.3 or above
• A fitness app or wearable device that you use to track your exercise sessions that also allows you to send your distances to Google Fit, such as RunKeeper, Strava etc
• A mission on My Virtual Mission (duh!)
• The latest version of the My Virtual Mission Android app (out now) from v2.2 and up.

How to make the connection

• Install or update to the the new MVM Android app
• Upon launching it, it will ask if you want to connect to Google Fit Go ahead and say yes.
• Connect Google Fit with some other fitness app or wearable device that you want to send distances to MVM (via health) from. e.g. Runkeeper, Strava etc. Usually this is found in the settings page – it could be called “connections” or “link other services” etc.

Once you have set that up, any distances that you post to Google Fit from your fitness app or wearable will be sent to your active MVM mission.

Notes:

• Enabling the integration will not import distances prior to enabling the integration, only new ones.
• Some apps delay sending fitness data to Google Fit by up to 24 hours
• Fitbit and Google Fit are not friends right now and are having a schoolyard scrap. Fitbit doesn’t (yet) send distance data to Google Fit, but you could do a work around by sending Fitbit data to say Endomondo, which sends it to Google It, which send it to MVM – wow!
• Only distances from third party fitness trackers (such as Runkeeper Endomondo, Strava etc) will be sent to MVM via Google Fit. We have disabled the native tracking the Google Fit does because it is really clunky.
• If you skip the Google Fit set up when first opening the app, but then decide you want to enable it, go to the main menu, then settings and then chose integrations.
• To disable Google Fit, go to main menu, settings and then integrations.

 

Please note that this new feature is currently still in beta, meaning it might not work exactly as it should!
(So please just contact us with any concerns rather than leaving a poor review on the Play Store – don’t be THAT guy!)