Health Connect in CaloTec-AI: Step Reading, Permissions, and Limits

CaloTec-AI's current Health Connect integration focuses on one data type: steps. The app requests read access to steps, displays the data, and can calculate an estimated energy expenditure from them. It does not import every data type that Health Connect can store.

What the App Reads

After permission is granted, CaloTec-AI can read step records available in Health Connect. The activity screen shows the step count and can display history for the available period.

The app does not write steps to Health Connect. The data comes from another app or device that has already stored step records there.

Data Types That Are Not Connected

The current version of CaloTec-AI does not request Health Connect permissions for sleep, nutrition, workouts, distance, heart rate, weight, or blood glucose. It also does not write the food diary to Health Connect.

Health Connect supports additional data types, but platform support does not mean that every app reads them. Each data type requires the relevant permission, and CaloTec-AI currently requests read access to steps only.

The User Controls Permission

Android presents the Health Connect permission screen. You can approve or deny step access and change that permission later in Health Connect settings.

Without the relevant permission or an available step source, CaloTec-AI cannot display step data from Health Connect.

Estimated Calories from Steps

CaloTec-AI can calculate estimated calories burned from the step count and available profile data. This number is calculated by the app; it is not an active-calorie record read from Health Connect and it is not a medical measurement.

What This Means

The integration does not connect sleep, meals, and workouts or derive relationships between them. Descriptions of those capabilities do not reflect the current app. The integration's current purpose is to show steps inside CaloTec-AI without claiming to provide a "complete health picture."