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Google Fit has evolved from a basic step tracker to a more comprehensive fitness tool, now providing detailed workout insights and displaying data in a more user-friendly format.
The updated home screen of Google Fit now displays workout details in a Google Now-inspired card layout. At the top, you'll find your exercise minutes, distance, calories burned, and steps for the day. Below that are your goals, followed by your workouts and other cards.
Unlike the old version of Google Fit, which only allowed a daily goal like 30 minutes of exercise, the new update lets you set multiple goals, such as weekly or monthly targets like 'run four times.' The home screen now also shows your progress toward those goals, as well as whether you've achieved them in the past. Currently, I can see that I completed my 30-minute goal every day this week except Sunday, and I've already hit three of my four runs for the week.
Google Fit now tracks personal records, such as your longest or furthest run. While I swiped away the notification for now, Fit will alert me when I break those records.
The home screen of Fit now includes a weight card that features a graph attempting to smooth out daily fluctuations. While it offers a better display than my Withings scale app, it also remembered my pregnancy weight changes from last year, which resulted in a strange post-baby weight gain display.
This update introduces a new watch face for Android Wear users, along with a fresh home screen widget for added convenience.
