Fitbit Working to Add Google Assistant Help, Versa 2 Might Get It First: Report

Fitbit is reportedly engaged on bringing Google Assistant assist to its wearable lineup. This new growth comes in the course of the ongoing confusion surrounding the Google’s Fitbit deal. If true, Fitbit would be the first third-party wearable firm to combine Google Assistant into its gadgets. Whereas Google Assistant has been built-in into numerous gadgets – from Chromebooks to good audio system – it nonetheless hasn’t been built-in right into a third-party smartwatch. Code inside the newest model of the Fitbit app appears to recommend that Google Assistant assist for the Fitbit Versa 2 is within the works.

9to5Google has decompiled the newest model of the Fitbit Android app on Google Play retailer, and the code means that the corporate is getting ready to combine Google Assistant assist. The code contained in the app has strings to activate Assistant in an analogous method as that of Alexa. Fitbit’s Versa 2 already helps Amazon’s Alexa integration, and is supplied with a microphone as properly for registering voice instructions. The code additionally reveals a trio of XML information that clearly reference at how Google Assistant will probably be launched, together with its boarding on to the machine and its teaser.

The report additional provides that app strings element on how ‘you possibly can solely have one lively assistant at a time and you’ll at all times swap to a different supplier.’ Which means Google Assistant will probably be added with out eradicating Alexa. The report says that Fitbit is prone to introduce Google Assistant first on the Versa 2 smartwatch. The wearable does not have a speaker that implies that whereas voice instructions will probably be accepted, solutions can solely be learn by means of the smartwatch interface. There’s additionally no hotword assist which means a bodily button will have to be pressed to activate Google Assistant.

Google introduced to buy Fitbit for $2.1 billion in November final yr. Nevertheless, the deal has been pending regulatory approval ever since, and an official announcement hasn’t been made but.