MenstruationPeriodRecord: Health Connect menstruation data

What Google says MenstruationPeriodRecord is

Captures user's menstruation periods.

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

Class

androidx.health.connect.client.records.MenstruationPeriodRecord

Google's category

Cycle Tracking

Record type

Interval

Unit class

none named in Google's table

Mandatory fields

endTimemetadatastartTime

Added in (Jetpack)

1.1.0

Same table row as

MenstruationFlowRecord

Permissions

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

• READ_MENSTRUATION and WRITE_MENSTRUATION are also declared for MenstruationFlowRecord in Google’s table.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.READ_MENSTRUATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_MENSTRUATION" />

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

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

The 5 fields of MenstruationPeriodRecord

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 MenstruationPeriodRecord in Kotlin

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

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

• Menstrual Cycle API: How to Get Cycle Tracking Data

Questions

What permission does MenstruationPeriodRecord need?

Google's Health Connect data-types table (read 2026-10-03) declares android.permission.health.READ_MENSTRUATION for reading MenstruationPeriodRecord and android.permission.health.WRITE_MENSTRUATION for writing it, and says apps must declare permissions in the manifest before requesting them. READ_MENSTRUATION and WRITE_MENSTRUATION are also declared for MenstruationFlowRecord.

Can you aggregate MenstruationPeriodRecord with AggregateRequest?

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

Is MenstruationPeriodRecord an interval, instantaneous or series record?

Google's data-types table lists MenstruationPeriodRecord as Interval, and defines that column as indicating "whether the data is recorded at an instant in time or over an interval". Its mandatory fields are endTime, metadata and startTime.