BodyTemperatureRecord: Health Connect body temperature data

What Google says BodyTemperatureRecord is

Captures the body temperature of a user. Each record represents a single instantaneous body temperature measurement.

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

Class

androidx.health.connect.client.records.BodyTemperatureRecord

Google's category

Vitals

Record type

Instantaneous

Unit class

androidx.health.connect.client.units.Temperature

Mandatory fields

temperaturemeasurementLocationmetadatatime

Added in (Jetpack)

1.1.0

Permissions

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

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.READ_BODY_TEMPERATURE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_BODY_TEMPERATURE" />

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

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

The 5 fields of BodyTemperatureRecord

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.

Read BodyTemperatureRecord in Kotlin

The shape of Google’s own read example, with BodyTemperatureRecord 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.BodyTemperatureRecord
import androidx.health.connect.client.request.ReadRecordsRequest
import androidx.health.connect.client.time.TimeRangeFilter
import java.time.Instant

suspend fun readBodyTemperature(
    client: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant,
): List<BodyTemperatureRecord> {
    val response = client.readRecords(
        ReadRecordsRequest(
            BodyTemperatureRecord::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 BodyTemperatureRecord 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 BodyTemperatureRecord 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.

• Body Temperature API: Core, Skin and Wrist Temperature Data

Questions

What permission does BodyTemperatureRecord need?

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

Can you aggregate BodyTemperatureRecord with AggregateRequest?

Not directly. As read on 2026-10-03, Google's Jetpack reference defines no AggregateMetric constants on BodyTemperatureRecord, 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 BodyTemperatureRecord.temperature accept?

Google's reference types temperature as Temperature. Its description reads: "Temperature in Temperature unit. Required field. Valid range: 0-100 Celsius degrees."

Is BodyTemperatureRecord an interval, instantaneous or series record?

Google's data-types table lists BodyTemperatureRecord 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 temperature, measurementLocation, metadata and time.