apple-watchhealth.appslacksoftware-recommendation
Lots of people in my office are using Apple Watch. I think it would be nice if when someone finished a workout or completing activity ring, the info is posted on slack.
Is there anything I could use to accomplish this? Any App?
I could go as far as building the custom mobile app if it does not exist yet, but really need direction on where I should go first.
The activity recorded on the Apple Watch is separate from the activity recorded on the iPhone. As such each is recorded as a separate source in health.app. Also only activity recorded on the Apple Watch is reflected in activity.app.
Source: @pbur - Apple Software Engineer
I think Apple's included Workout app can record activity and heart-rate data without the iPhone, but the Nike+ Running app can't (as of the 17th of November 2015).
Here's the info page from the iPhone Nike+ Running app (Nike+ Running > Settings > Apple Watch)..
Nike state that you need to have your iPhone on you.
Best Answer
Since health data is highly private, you’ll want to have an app run on each device so everyone opts in to the collection.
This has been done very well - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/challenges-compete-get-fit/id1051342211
I would start there and then see if you even need slack integration. The shortcuts app does have the ability to pull data from the health database, but you’re going to need to connect a few things and then architect the trigger or have people periodically push their data. The app above has already solved all those “design and technical challenges” for you so you can all just design a challenge on workouts and fitness
Here’s how you get started with shortcuts. You can chain them together and call any web API so that’s how you’d get things to slack if there isn’t a slack app that works with shortcut automation on iOS.
There is an app for slack you could install and see if shortcuts still can post to slack after the app was renamed from workflow to shortcuts.