How to differentiate between manual added steps and sensor recorded steps in Google Fit Api

Question

I am using Google Fit Api in my project to get user's daily steps. But the problem is, user can enter the steps manually by adding the activities. And when i retrieve the daily steps, Google Fit Api also returns the steps which were added manually. Is there any way to differentiate between manually added steps and sensor recorded steps.

Answer 1

This is how i solved this issue.

   final DataReadRequest readRequest = new DataReadRequest.Builder()
            .read(googleFitUtils.getEstimatedSteps())
            .setTimeRange(startTime, endTime, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
            .build();

    DataReadResult dataReadResult =
            Fitness.HistoryApi.readData(mGoogleApiFitnessClient, readRequest).await(1, TimeUnit.MINUTES);

    DataSet stepData = dataReadResult.getDataSet(DataType.TYPE_STEP_COUNT_DELTA);

    int totalSteps = 0;

    for (DataPoint dp : stepData.getDataPoints()) {
        for(Field field : dp.getDataType().getFields()) {
            int steps = dp.getValue(field).asInt();
            if (!"user_input".equals(dp.getOriginalDataSource().getStreamName()))
                totalSteps += steps;
        }
    }

First Point - > Before i was getting the total steps using

Fitness.HistoryApi.readDailyTotal

which returns one data point with total daily steps. Second Point - > Then i changed the way to get the daily steps using

Fitness.HistoryApi.readData

It returns array of data points with the chunks of daily steps. Each data point has a property of

dp.getOriginalDataSource().getStreamName()

which returns you the type, either steps were recorded by sensor or it was a use input. That's how you can filter the user input steps to avoid steps hack in your application.