# Exploring Health Connect Pt. 1 - Setting Up Permissions DevFeed: [Exploring Health Connect Pt. 1 - Setting Up Permissions]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Eevis Panula Published: 2025-06-11T04:24:44.276000Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Eevis Blog]() Topics: [Android](), [Authorization](), [App](), [coding]() Tags: [android](), [building](), [coding](), [permissions]() ## AI overview A tutorial describing how to set up Google Health Connect permissions for an Android period-tracking app. It explains Health Connect's role in sharing health and fitness data between apps and notes that production use of sensitive health data requires an access form. ## Source excerpt I've been really intrigued to try out Google Health Connect and build an app that utilizes it. When I started thinking about what I'd make, I realized that the one thing that I would need is a custom period tracker. There are some apps to track your menstruation, but they're usually pretty complex, and most require an account. And when all I want to do is track the times when I'm bleeding, I thought I could build my own app. Also, many of these apps are often so freaking heteronormative that I don't want to use them. What if I don't have just (CIS) men as potential partners? What if I don't need to care about possible pregnancy? What if I only want to track when I'm bleeding? Also, why are these apps often colored pink? And why do they (almost) always assume it's women using these apps? Some non-binary folks and trans-men menstruate, too, you know. And yes, some apps are more inclusive than others. However, it is still frustrating how many apps make these assumptions about people who menstruate. So yes. I decided to build my own app. I'm also writing a couple of blog posts that will share the steps I took to make the first version of my period-tracking app. Even though I'm writing about the menstruation-related Google Health records, these same steps apply to other records. In this first blog post, I'm sharing how to set things up and ask for permission from the user. The following blog post (published next week) will be about writing and reading data from Health Connect. After these two posts, the app I'm building will look like this: Before diving into the coding, let's discuss Health Connect a bit. What is Health Connect? Health Connect is a way to share data between apps on Android. It provides a centralized way to handle health and fitness data, giving users control over which apps they want to share their data. You can learn more from Health Connect by Android site. As Health Connect is related to sensitive data, you must fill out a form to use it in productio