August 15, 2018 – Written By Dominik Bosnjak Google is working on a new wearable app meant to serve as a digital health and fitness assistant with a provisional name of “Google Coach,” Android Police reports, citing no particular sources. The Alphabet-owned company is currently said to be prioritizing Wear OS devices, though the app will also offer a degree of smartphone functionality, but it’s still unclear whether it will be available on Android handsets from day one. As one of the main reasons behind Android Wear’s transformation into Wear OS was to cater to the iPhone crowd, Google Coach is likely to eventually make its way to iOS as well. The people in charge of the project reportedly think Google Coach could be ported to Google Home, Android TV, and other platforms following its initial rollout, though its full set of features is likely to only be available to owners of compatible wearables that can actually track their health indicators and performance metrics, feeding that data into the app for in-depth analysis. The Mountain View, California-based firm already offers a digital health and fitness app in the form of Google Fit, though it’s still unclear whether Google Coach is meant to replace it, serve as its rebrand deliver in the form of an update, or co-exist with it. Internally referred to as “Project Wooden,” Google Coach’s name may still end up being changed before the app is launched and the sheer volume of features that the company is currently… [Read full story]
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