Given that python is available on iOS, I decided to see what I could do with it. In this post, I’ll describe one experiment that I tried — the purpose of this post is to give you an idea of what you can do with python, I hope it inspires you to try new ideas of your own.
iOS devices contain a wealth of health data, and while the built in health app does a good job of presenting the data in a readable manner, and there are many third party apps that provide more detailed analysis, the hacker in me would not rest until I could extract the data from the app and do my own personal analytics with custom programs.
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