SpeedRecord: Health Connect speed data

What Google says SpeedRecord is

Captures the user's speed, e.g. during running or cycling. Each record represents a series of measurements.

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

Class

androidx.health.connect.client.records.SpeedRecord

Google's category

Activity

Record type

Series

Unit class

none named in Google's table

Mandatory fields

endTimemetadatasamplesstartTime

Added in (Jetpack)

1.1.0

Permissions

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

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.READ_SPEED" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_SPEED" />

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

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

The 6 fields of SpeedRecord

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.

Aggregate metrics

The AggregateMetric constants Google defines on SpeedRecord. The value type is the T in Google’s AggregateMetric<T> signature. Every aggregate metric across all records.

Google’s read-data guide: “For cumulative types like StepsRecord, use aggregate() instead of readRecords() to avoid double counting from multiple sources and improve accuracy.” and “The aggregation API also contains logic to handle duplicate records, and lessens the chances of rate limiting.”

Read SpeedRecord in Kotlin

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

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

import androidx.health.connect.client.HealthConnectClient
import androidx.health.connect.client.records.SpeedRecord
import androidx.health.connect.client.request.AggregateRequest
import androidx.health.connect.client.time.TimeRangeFilter
import java.time.Instant
import androidx.health.connect.client.units.Velocity

suspend fun aggregateSpeed(
    client: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant,
): Velocity? {
    val response = client.aggregate(
        AggregateRequest(
            metrics = setOf(SpeedRecord.SPEED_AVG),
            timeRangeFilter = TimeRangeFilter.between(startTime, endTime),
        )
    )
    // get() is declared as returning a nullable value.
    return response[SpeedRecord.SPEED_AVG]
}

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 SpeedRecord 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

These guides list SpeedRecord 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.

• Cycling Power API: Power, Cadence and Speed Data Across Platforms
• Running Metrics API: Speed, Power, Stride Length and Running Form Data

Questions

What permission does SpeedRecord need?

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

Which aggregate metrics does SpeedRecord support?

Google's Jetpack reference defines 3 on SpeedRecord: SPEED_AVG (AggregateMetric<Velocity>), SPEED_MAX (AggregateMetric<Velocity>) and SPEED_MIN (AggregateMetric<Velocity>). Pass them in the metrics set of an AggregateRequest and read each back from the AggregationResult.

Is SpeedRecord an interval, instantaneous or series record?

Google's data-types table lists SpeedRecord as Series, 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, samples and startTime.