RespiratoryRateRecord: Health Connect respiratory rate data

What Google says RespiratoryRateRecord is

Captures the user's respiratory rate. Each record represents a single instantaneous measurement.

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

Class

androidx.health.connect.client.records.RespiratoryRateRecord

Google's category

Vitals

Record type

Instantaneous

Unit class

none named in Google's table

Mandatory fields

metadataratetime

Added in (Jetpack)

1.1.0

Permissions

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

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.READ_RESPIRATORY_RATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_RESPIRATORY_RATE" />

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

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

The 4 fields of RespiratoryRateRecord

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 RespiratoryRateRecord in Kotlin

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

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

• Respiratory Rate API: How to Get Breathing-Rate Data

Questions

What permission does RespiratoryRateRecord need?

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

Can you aggregate RespiratoryRateRecord with AggregateRequest?

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

Google's reference types rate as Double. Its description reads: "Respiratory rate in breaths per minute. Required field. Valid range: 0-1000."

Is RespiratoryRateRecord an interval, instantaneous or series record?

Google's data-types table lists RespiratoryRateRecord 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 metadata, rate and time.