StepsCadenceRecord: Health Connect steps data

What Google says StepsCadenceRecord is

Captures the user's steps cadence. Each record represents a series of measurements.

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

Class

androidx.health.connect.client.records.StepsCadenceRecord

Google's category

Activity

Record type

Series

Unit class

none named in Google's table

Mandatory fields

endTimesamplesmetadatastartTime

Added in (Jetpack)

1.1.0

Same table row as

StepsRecord

Permissions

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

• READ_STEPS and WRITE_STEPS are also declared for StepsRecord in Google’s table.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.READ_STEPS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_STEPS" />

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

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

The 6 fields of StepsCadenceRecord

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 StepsCadenceRecord. 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 StepsCadenceRecord in Kotlin

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

suspend fun readStepsCadence(
    client: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant,
): List<StepsCadenceRecord> {
    val response = client.readRecords(
        ReadRecordsRequest(
            StepsCadenceRecord::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.StepsCadenceRecord
import androidx.health.connect.client.request.AggregateRequest
import androidx.health.connect.client.time.TimeRangeFilter
import java.time.Instant

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

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

HealthKit counterpart

The metric on other platforms

This guide lists StepsCadenceRecord 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.

• Step Counting API: How to Get Step Data

Questions

What permission does StepsCadenceRecord need?

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

Which aggregate metrics does StepsCadenceRecord support?

Google's Jetpack reference defines 3 on StepsCadenceRecord: RATE_AVG (AggregateMetric<Double>), RATE_MAX (AggregateMetric<Double>) and RATE_MIN (AggregateMetric<Double>). Pass them in the metrics set of an AggregateRequest and read each back from the AggregationResult.

Is StepsCadenceRecord an interval, instantaneous or series record?

Google's data-types table lists StepsCadenceRecord 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, samples, metadata and startTime.