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How to integrate Apple Health API into your backend
There is no Apple Health API in the traditional sense. Learn how Open Wearables SDK-based approach gets HealthKit data into your backend with token-based auth and XML import.
How to integrate Apple Health data into your app
A practical apple health integration guide using Open Wearables. Learn the two paths: mobile SDK for real-time background sync and XML import for historical HealthKit exports.
Getting Apple Health data into your backend
There is no server-side Apple Health API. Getting data to your backend means building an iOS pipeline: permissions, observer queries, background delivery and reliable upload.
Apple HealthKit API: what data you can access and how
HealthKit is an on-device framework, not a remote API. There is no server-side Apple Health endpoint. Here's what's available, how permissions work, and what building an integration really requires.