Aggregate data

Aggregating data in Health Connect can include basic aggregations or aggregating data into buckets. The following workflows show you how to do both.

Basic aggregations: cumulative

The following example shows you how to aggregate data for a data type.

suspend fun aggregateDistance(
    healthConnectClient: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant
) {
    val response =
        healthConnectClient.aggregate(
            AggregateRequest(
                metrics = setOf(DistanceRecord.DISTANCE_TOTAL),
                timeRangeFilter = TimeRangeFilter.between(startTime, endTime)
            )
        )
    // The result may be null if no data is available in the time range.
    val distanceTotalInMeters = response[DistanceRecord.DISTANCE_TOTAL]?.inMeters ?: 0L
}

Basic aggregations: statistical

Statistical aggregation will compute the minimum, maximum, or average values.

Here’s an example of statistical aggregation:

suspend fun aggregateHeartRate(
    healthConnectClient: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant
) {
    val response =
        healthConnectClient.aggregate(
            AggregateRequest(
                setOf(HeartRateRecord.BPM_MAX, HeartRateRecord.BPM_MIN),
                timeRangeFilter = TimeRangeFilter.between(startTime, endTime)
            )
        )
    // The result may be null if no data is available in the time range.
    val minimumHeartRate = response[HeartRateRecord.BPM_MIN]
    val maximumHeartRate = response[HeartRateRecord.BPM_MAX]
}

Buckets

Health Connect allows you to aggregate into buckets. There are two types of buckets that can be used:

• Duration - where each bucket is of a fixed length in time, for example a minute or an hour.
• Period - where each bucket is of a conceptual length in time, for a example a week or a month.

Health Connect returns a list of buckets. Note that this list is sparse, so, where a bucket would contain no data, it is not present in the list.

The following shows an example of aggregating steps into monthly buckets:

suspend fun aggregateStepsIntoMonths(
    healthConnectClient: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant
) {
    val response =
        healthConnectClient.aggregateGroupByPeriod(
            AggregateGroupByPeriodRequest(
                metrics = setOf(StepsRecord.COUNT_TOTAL),
                timeRangeFilter = TimeRangeFilter.between(startTime, endTime),
                timeRangeSlicer = Period.ofMonths(1)
            )
        )
    for (monthlyResult in response) {
        // The result may be null if no data is available in the time range.
        val totalSteps = monthlyResult.result[StepsRecord.COUNT_TOTAL]
    }
}

To aggregate by Duration, the approach follows the same pattern as previously, but instead uses the aggregateGroupByDuration(request: AggregateGroupByDurationRequest) method.