Health Connect exercise types: all 61 EXERCISE_TYPE_ constants, their platform values, allowed segments and same-name constants elsewhere

All 61 constants

Names are copied exactly from the source; the last column lists the constants on the other platforms whose names match under the crosswalk rule, with their numbers where printed.

Two numberings for one list

The values above are the Jetpack library’s ExerciseSessionRecord constants. The platform API that ships in Android (android.health.connect.datatypes.ExerciseSessionType) defines its own constants with different integers: 61 of the 61 pairs differ; EXERCISE_TYPE_RUNNING is 56 in the library and EXERCISE_SESSION_TYPE_RUNNING is 33 on the platform. The library converts between the two in IntDefMappings.kt, whose rows pair the constants in the table above, for example:

ExerciseSessionRecord.EXERCISE_TYPE_RUNNING to PlatformExerciseSessionType.EXERCISE_SESSION_TYPE_RUNNING

Which segment types each session type accepts

Google’s reference documents ExerciseSegment.isSegmentTypeCompatibleWithSessionType() (added in 1.2.0-alpha06) as “Is a segment type compatible with a session type.”. The table it reads is in the library source: every session accepts the 5 universal segment types (OTHER_WORKOUT, PAUSE, REST, STRETCHING and UNKNOWN), EXERCISE_TYPE_BOOT_CAMP, EXERCISE_TYPE_HIGH_INTENSITY_INTERVAL_TRAINING and EXERCISE_TYPE_OTHER_WORKOUT accept every segment type, and the session types the table names accept their own list on top. The Segments column above shows each one.

EXERCISE_SEGMENTS, used by EXERCISE_TYPE_CALISTHENICS, EXERCISE_TYPE_GYMNASTICS, EXERCISE_TYPE_STRENGTH_TRAINING and EXERCISE_TYPE_WEIGHTLIFTING: ARM_CURL, BACK_EXTENSION, BALL_SLAM, BARBELL_SHOULDER_PRESS, BENCH_PRESS, BENCH_SIT_UP, BURPEE, CRUNCH, DEADLIFT, DOUBLE_ARM_TRICEPS_EXTENSION, DUMBBELL_CURL_LEFT_ARM, DUMBBELL_CURL_RIGHT_ARM, DUMBBELL_FRONT_RAISE, DUMBBELL_LATERAL_RAISE, DUMBBELL_ROW, DUMBBELL_TRICEPS_EXTENSION_LEFT_ARM, DUMBBELL_TRICEPS_EXTENSION_RIGHT_ARM, DUMBBELL_TRICEPS_EXTENSION_TWO_ARM, FORWARD_TWIST, FRONT_RAISE, HIP_THRUST, HULA_HOOP, JUMP_ROPE, JUMPING_JACK, KETTLEBELL_SWING, LATERAL_RAISE, LAT_PULL_DOWN, LEG_CURL, LEG_EXTENSION, LEG_PRESS, LEG_RAISE, LUNGE, MOUNTAIN_CLIMBER, PLANK, PULL_UP, PUNCH, SHOULDER_PRESS, SINGLE_ARM_TRICEPS_EXTENSION, SIT_UP, SQUAT, UPPER_TWIST and WEIGHTLIFTING.

In the source, the ExerciseSessionRecord constructor runs require( isSegmentTypeCompatibleWithSessionType(segment.segmentType, exerciseType) ) { "segmentType and sessionType is not compatible." } in the branch that does not hand the record to the platform API (init { if ( Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.UPSIDE_DOWN_CAKE && isAtLeastSdkExtension21() ) { @Suppress("CheckReturnValue") this.toPlatformRecord() } else {).

No same-name counterpart (1)

No other platform spells these names the same way under the rule. That is a statement about names, not a finding that the activity is missing elsewhere.

EXERCISE_TYPE_OTHER_WORKOUT

The catch-all: ExerciseSessionRecord.EXERCISE_TYPE_OTHER_WORKOUT

• “Can be used to represent any generic workout that does not fall into a specific category. Any unknown new value definition will also fall automatically into EXERCISE_TYPE_OTHER_WORKOUT. Next Id: 84.” (ExerciseSessionRecord (Jetpack reference))
• “internal fun Int.toSdkExerciseSessionType(): Int { return PLATFORM_TO_SDK_EXERCISE_SESSION_TYPE[this] ?: ExerciseSessionRecord.EXERCISE_TYPE_OTHER_WORKOUT }” (IntDefMappings.kt (androidx source))

Where the sources disagree (6)

• Listed by a guide, not by the referenceEXERCISE_TYPE_UNKNOWNGoogle's Health Connect data-types guide (last updated 2026-09-23) lists EXERCISE_TYPE_UNKNOWN under "Exercise types" in its ExerciseSessionRecord row, one of 62 names there; the Jetpack ExerciseSessionRecord reference does not define it, and neither does the androidx source.
  • “EXERCISE_TYPE_UNKNOWN” (Health Connect data types)
• A description that reads like another constant'sEXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_DUMBBELL_FRONT_RAISEGoogle's ExerciseSegment reference describes EXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_DUMBBELL_FRONT_RAISE (15) as "Use this type for right arm dumbbell curl.", the words of the constant before it, EXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_DUMBBELL_CURL_RIGHT_ARM (14), which it gives no description; the androidx source has the same comment above EXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_DUMBBELL_FRONT_RAISE.
  • “Use this type for right arm dumbbell curl.” (ExerciseSegment (Jetpack reference))
  • “/** Use this type for right arm dumbbell curl. */ public const val EXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_DUMBBELL_FRONT_RAISE: Int = 15” (ExerciseSegment.kt (androidx source))
• A description that reads like another constant'sEXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_SINGLE_ARM_TRICEPS_EXTENSIONGoogle's ExerciseSegment reference describes EXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_SINGLE_ARM_TRICEPS_EXTENSION (49) as "Use this type for shoulder press.", the words of the constant before it, EXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_SHOULDER_PRESS (48), which it gives no description; the androidx source has the same comment above EXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_SINGLE_ARM_TRICEPS_EXTENSION.
  • “Use this type for shoulder press.” (ExerciseSegment (Jetpack reference))
  • “/** Use this type for shoulder press. */ public const val EXERCISE_SEGMENT_TYPE_SINGLE_ARM_TRICEPS_EXTENSION: Int = 49” (ExerciseSegment.kt (androidx source))
• Deprecated on one API, not the otherEXERCISE_TYPE_GUIDED_BREATHINGThe platform API deprecates EXERCISE_SESSION_TYPE_GUIDED_BREATHING in API level 37; the Jetpack reference does not mark EXERCISE_TYPE_GUIDED_BREATHING, which the library converts to it, deprecated.
  • “This constant was deprecated in API level 37. Use MindfulnessSessionRecord of the corresponding type MindfulnessSessionRecord.MINDFULNESS_SESSION_TYPE_BREATHING.” (ExerciseSessionType (Android platform reference))
  • “ExerciseSessionRecord.EXERCISE_TYPE_GUIDED_BREATHING to @Suppress("DEPRECATION") PlatformExerciseSessionType.EXERCISE_SESSION_TYPE_GUIDED_BREATHING” (IntDefMappings.kt (androidx source))
• Platform constant with no Jetpack counterpartEXERCISE_SESSION_TYPE_UNKNOWNThe platform ExerciseSessionType reference lists EXERCISE_SESSION_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 0; no Jetpack constant maps to it in IntDefMappings.kt, and the library's toSdkExerciseSessionType() turns an unmapped platform value into EXERCISE_TYPE_OTHER_WORKOUT.
  • “Use this type if the type of the exercise session is not known.” (ExerciseSessionType (Android platform reference))
  • “internal fun Int.toSdkExerciseSessionType(): Int { return PLATFORM_TO_SDK_EXERCISE_SESSION_TYPE[this] ?: ExerciseSessionRecord.EXERCISE_TYPE_OTHER_WORKOUT }” (IntDefMappings.kt (androidx source))
• Guide sample names a member the reference lacksExerciseSessionRecord.ExerciseType.RUNNING2 Health Connect guides' samples write exerciseType = ExerciseSessionRecord.ExerciseType.RUNNING; the ExerciseSessionRecord reference lists no ExerciseType member, and its constant is EXERCISE_TYPE_RUNNING = 56.
  • “exerciseType = ExerciseSessionRecord.ExerciseType.RUNNING” (Add exercise routes (Health Connect))
  • “exerciseType = ExerciseSessionRecord.ExerciseType.RUNNING” (Training plans (Health Connect))
  • “const val EXERCISE_TYPE_RUNNING = 56: Int” (ExerciseSessionRecord (Jetpack reference))

Side by side, one activity at a time

• Elliptical
• Hiking
• Pilates
• Running
• Walking
• Yoga
• Calisthenics
• High intensity interval training
• Stair climbing

More on Android Health Connect on this site

• ExerciseSessionRecord: fields, permissions and constants
• Every Health Connect record type

Questions

Sources (6)

• ExerciseSessionRecord (Jetpack reference) · read 2026-10-18 · page last updated 2026-08-26 · sha256 21ca77ecf582
• ExerciseSessionType (Android platform reference) · read 2026-10-18 · page last updated 2026-08-03 · sha256 7dd4604a4779
• ExerciseSessionRecord.kt (androidx source) · androidx/androidx, branch androidx-main · read 2026-10-18 · sha256 0c1f0af31734
• IntDefMappings.kt (androidx source) · androidx/androidx, branch androidx-main · read 2026-10-18 · sha256 12aa0de76928
• ExerciseSegment (Jetpack reference) · read 2026-10-18 · page last updated 2026-08-26 · sha256 355facabc40c
• ExerciseSegment.kt (androidx source) · androidx/androidx, branch androidx-main · read 2026-10-18 · sha256 60a01a3fdec0