BloodGlucoseRecord: Health Connect blood glucose data

What Google says BloodGlucoseRecord is

Captures the concentration of glucose in the blood. Each record represents a single instantaneous blood glucose reading.

Quoted from Google’s BloodGlucoseRecord Jetpack reference, last updated 2026-06-24, read 2026-10-03.

Class

androidx.health.connect.client.records.BloodGlucoseRecord

Google's category

Vitals

Record type

Instantaneous

Unit class

none named in Google's table

Mandatory fields

levelspecimenSourcemealTyperelationToMealmetadatatime

Added in (Jetpack)

1.1.0

Permissions

The exact strings Google’s data-types table declares for BloodGlucoseRecord. Google’s page: “Before requesting any permissions, your app must declare them in the manifest.”

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.READ_BLOOD_GLUCOSE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_BLOOD_GLUCOSE" />

import androidx.health.connect.client.permission.HealthPermission
import androidx.health.connect.client.records.BloodGlucoseRecord

val permissions = setOf(
    HealthPermission.getReadPermission(BloodGlucoseRecord::class),
    HealthPermission.getWritePermission(BloodGlucoseRecord::class),
)

The 7 fields of BloodGlucoseRecord

Types and descriptions as Google’s reference prints them. The range column quotes Google’s own range annotation or sentence; a dash means Google states none, which is not the same as no validation.

Constants

The 12 const val values Google’s reference lists on BloodGlucoseRecord, with the integer each maps to.

Read BloodGlucoseRecord in Kotlin

The shape of Google’s own read example, with BloodGlucoseRecord and its names filled in. Get the client with HealthConnectClient.getOrCreate(context) after checking getSdkStatus.

import androidx.health.connect.client.HealthConnectClient
import androidx.health.connect.client.records.BloodGlucoseRecord
import androidx.health.connect.client.request.ReadRecordsRequest
import androidx.health.connect.client.time.TimeRangeFilter
import java.time.Instant

suspend fun readBloodGlucose(
    client: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant,
): List<BloodGlucoseRecord> {
    val response = client.readRecords(
        ReadRecordsRequest(
            BloodGlucoseRecord::class,
            timeRangeFilter = TimeRangeFilter.between(startTime, endTime),
        )
    )
    // One page of up to pageSize records (default 1000); follow
    // response.pageToken for the rest.
    return response.records
}

Setting up the client, the permission flow and Play Console declaration: integrating Health Connect step by step.

HealthKit counterpart

No verified HealthKit counterpart. The cross-platform matrix only pairs metrics checked against both Apple’s and Google’s documentation, and BloodGlucoseRecord is not among them yet. A similarly named Apple type may exist on the HealthKit reference, but a name match is not a verified mapping.

The metric on other platforms

This guide lists BloodGlucoseRecord beside the types on the other platforms this site covers whose own descriptions name the same metric, each quoted, with how each one is read.

• Blood Glucose API: How to Get Glucose Data Into Your App

Questions

What permission does BloodGlucoseRecord need?

Google's Health Connect data-types table (read 2026-10-03) declares android.permission.health.READ_BLOOD_GLUCOSE for reading BloodGlucoseRecord and android.permission.health.WRITE_BLOOD_GLUCOSE for writing it, and says apps must declare permissions in the manifest before requesting them.

Can you aggregate BloodGlucoseRecord with AggregateRequest?

Not directly. As read on 2026-10-03, Google's Jetpack reference defines no AggregateMetric constants on BloodGlucoseRecord, so there is no metric to put in an AggregateRequest. Read the records with readRecords and a ReadRecordsRequest, and compute any summary yourself.

What values does BloodGlucoseRecord.level accept?

Google's reference types level as BloodGlucose. Its description reads: "Blood glucose level or concentration. Required field. Valid range: 0-50 mmol/L."

Is BloodGlucoseRecord an interval, instantaneous or series record?

Google's data-types table lists BloodGlucoseRecord as Instantaneous, and defines that column as indicating "whether the data is recorded at an instant in time or over an interval". Its mandatory fields are level, specimenSource, mealType, relationToMeal, metadata and time.