Filter manual entered data

[AadGlasbergen]

We are developing an App which give you "Coins" when you reached an achievement. You can manually enter steps in Google Fit. Is it possible to filter out this manual entered data.

[StasDoskalenko]

@AadGlasbergen I believe you can filter it by source type

[neogermi]

@StasDoskalenko and @AadGlasbergen yes, we have done that directly in the Java code. You can filter for 'user_input' inside StepHistory.java:

+            // check if was manually input
+            DataSource ds = dp.getOriginalDataSource();
+            String streamId = ds.getStreamIdentifier();
+
+            if (streamId.toLowerCase().indexOf("user_input") != -1) {
+              // exclude this from the set
+              Log.i(TAG, "\t\tOriginalSource  : " + streamId + " -> excluded as it was manually entered");
+              continue;
+            }

[EJohnF]

Now there is 'tracked' flag to check whether it was logged manually or recorded from sensors.

[StasDoskalenko]

Added TODO: in https://github.com/StasDoskalenko/react-native-google-fit/projects/1

[winardis]

Hi are there any updates to the filter on manually added entries for the package @StasDoskalenko ?

[ClementLANGENDORF]

Hi @StasDoskalenko when do you think this feature will arrive ?
@neogermi In the meantime could you please show me how and where you filter, that would be a great help. 🙏 🙏 🙏

[neogermi]

Hi @ClementLANGENDORF ,

sure. All I did was that I basically added the above mentioned code piece in StepHistory.java insice processDtaSet. This then filters for the stream where the data came from. We then filter out everything that was manually added by the user, hence "user_input".

Not the best solution but my Android-code skills are limited :-)

BTW: We then extracted this part with patch-package to apply only our changes on top of the official release. That was quite beneficial.

Hope that helps you.

[ClementLANGENDORF]

Thank you @neogermi I will try but I just saw that there was a metode GoogleFit.getUserInputSteps to allow to get the steps, it seems to work well I'll go on it.

my skills in android / java development are not the best for me either

[PhalugunaRao]

@StasDoskalenko and @AadGlasbergen yes, we have done that directly in the Java code. You can filter for 'user_input' inside StepHistory.java:

+            // check if was manually input
+            DataSource ds = dp.getOriginalDataSource();
+            String streamId = ds.getStreamIdentifier();
+
+            if (streamId.toLowerCase().indexOf("user_input") != -1) {
+              // exclude this from the set
+              Log.i(TAG, "\t\tOriginalSource  : " + streamId + " -> excluded as it was manually entered");
+              continue;
+            }

FOR samsung device getting "Samsung Step Counter" it's not user_input