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SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I tried it with GrapheneOS’ sandboxed google play services, and it only sort of worked. Most of my steps wouldn’t get logged. To be fair, that is as advertised. The game seems to expect a consistent reporting of steps rather than just pulling the data when you open it, which seems like the sort of thing that will make compatibility hard.

Anyways what I saw of it was pretty cool so folks should definitely check it out.

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walkscape@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thank you! Support for GrapheneOS is kinda sketchy indeed as the game relies on Google’s Health APIs to pull the steps. I’ve heard that if you have a Samsung smart band/watch/ring and use Samsung Health in the sandbox it might work pretty well. You might even get it to work pulling the steps of your phone that way.

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- gressen@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Having to send health data to Google to play a game is a hard pass for me. How anyone expects this to be normal and acceptable is beyond me.
  
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  - walkscape@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Couple things:
    
    When Google entirely reworked their APIs and added the new Health Recording API (which we use) that’s offline and doesn’t need Google account. Google claims the data on it stays on your phone but you’ll need to trust their word for it. Link to Google’s documentation on this
    
    This API is accountless, meaning it does not require a Google Account to use the service, and data is stored on-device.
    
    We tried doing our own step counting system early on. But creating your own pedometer is nearly impossible these days and takes enormous amount of time that you’d be spending making the game itself. It’s just not possible, especially when you have the platform APIs for pedometer available and those work much more reliably than anything we could do.
    
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