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Recent articles
How to migrate to SDK 5.0?
This guide will help you in migrating your Fitbit OS 4.2 app to the latest version of the Fitbit SDK. For the sake of completeness, some steps have been replicated here from Fitbit’s SDK 5.0 announcement page.
How to add analytics to your Fitbit app?
In this article, we describe how you can add basic analytics to your Fitbit app to track how many installs you have, how many monthly active users you have, etc.
One code base, all Fitbit smartwatches
The latest version (5.0) of the Fitbit OS and its SDK has been released in September 2020. This release no longer supports Fitbit smartwatches other than the Versa 3 and Sense. Hence, by targeting development only for Fitbit OS 5.0, updates to your app won’t be available for millions of devices. In this article, we describe a solution for targeting both SDK 4.x and SDK 5.x compatible devices, from the same code base, with minimal overhead.