[Technical Questions] Import values from healthkit and show them in the view

[elsa-bismuth]

In what area do you have a technical challenge?

Xcode, Simulator & Previews

Description

I am trying to import steps and activeEnergyBurned to my app, show it in the view, and then log it into firebase.

Reproduction

1. First, I added these pieces of info in the authorization page of the onboarding.
2. Now, I am trying to see them in the view. Can we have an example of how it work with HealthKitQuery, SpeziHealthKit, and SpeziHealthKitUI ?
   I saw a document written by Paul and his team here : https://swiftpackageindex.com/StanfordSpezi/SpeziHealthKit but the guidelines are not specific enough and the links with more info are not working.
3. Also, I set up the firebase connection so when I manually create an activity, it gets sent to Firestore. How can I directly import HealthKit data activity to Firestore?

Expected behavior

Import healthkit data to the view and create an activity

Additional context

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[PSchmiedmayer]

@elsa-bismuth Thank you for reaching out!

Here are the documentation links for the SpeziHealthKit 1.0.0-beta.1 and SpeziHealthKitUI 1.0.0-beta.1. They are currently a beta release (1.0.0-beta.1) so you have to explicitly select the beta tag in the documentation picker on SPI.

You will also have to update your imported version of SpeziHelathKit to 1.0.0-beta.1 in your Xcode project settings (Select your project in the Project Editor and navigate to the Packages Dependencies pane).

The documentation of SpeziHealthKitUI links to the relevant elements such as HealthKitQuery and the HealthChart. Let us know if you encounter any issues or have feedback regarding the API as we are continuously improving the package until we will tag a version 1.0.0 for SpeziHealthKit.

If you want to visualize HealthKit data, I would not recommend going through the FireStore. You can use HealthKit as a good local database for all your Health-related data if there is a suitable quantifier and also write to HealthKit (you can specify that your app needs to permissions using the RequestWriteAccess configuration) following the Apple documentation: Saving data to HealthKit.

If you have data in Firestore that you want to visualize in a Chart, I would recommend checking out Swift Charts.

[elsa-bismuth]

Thanks! Will look into it. Would you recommend connecting to HealthKit and not at all to the Firestore then?

[PSchmiedmayer]

Yes, I think this will be simpler as a starting point if your goal is show these metrics in the UI.

You can combine this with the Spezi HealthKit delivery in the Standard to ensure that all the samples are also stored in Firebase (or a subset/summary if you want to process this in the app).