Connect Android to MoveQuest.
Your fitness app records activity. Health Connect manages it. MoveQuest reads approved data from Health Connect — never directly from your phone’s sensors.
- Your fitness app records activity.
- Health Connect stores and manages the activity data.
- MoveQuest reads approved activity data from Health Connect.
- You submit PoPA to participate in MQT mining.
MoveQuest does not need to run in the background or access sensors directly. It reads from Health Connect when it opens.
Install the required apps.
You need three things: MoveQuest, a fitness tracking app, and Health Connect (on older Android versions).
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Install MoveQuest from the Play Store.
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Install a fitness tracking app.
Choose a fitness tracking app such as Google Fit, Samsung Health, Fitbit, or another app that writes activity data to Health Connect. If you already use one, you’re done with this step.
Wearables work too. Fitness watches and other wearables are supported as long as their data syncs into a tracking app that writes to Health Connect.
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Install Health Connect (only on Android 13 or older).
Android 14+ has Health Connect built into the OS — no install needed. On older Android versions, download Health Connect from the Play Store.
Set up Health Connect permissions.
Health Connect is the secure bridge between your fitness tracking apps and MoveQuest. Your fitness app records the activity. Health Connect stores and manages the data. MoveQuest reads the authorized information for PoPA mining.
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Open your phone’s main Settings.
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Navigate to Health Connect.
Security & Privacy → Privacy Controls → Health Connect
On some devices the path is Privacy → Health Connect.
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Tap App Permissions.
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Give your fitness app permission to write to Health Connect.
Select your fitness app (Google Fit, Samsung Health, Fitbit, or whichever you installed in Step 01) and enable the activity categories you want to share — steps, distance, workouts, calories, sleep.
Let MoveQuest read from Health Connect.
One more permission: MoveQuest needs read access to the activity data Health Connect now holds.
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Open the MoveQuest app.
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Navigate to your Profile or dashboard settings.
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Tap Connect Activity Data.
MoveQuest will request permission from Health Connect to read your approved activity categories.
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When the Health Connect permission screen appears, tap Allow All.
That’s it. MoveQuest now reads your authorized activity data from Health Connect.
When something’s not working.
The most common Android issues. Most come down to one of two missing permissions.
Both permissions are required. Verify two things in Health Connect:
- Your tracking app has permission to write data into Health Connect.
- MoveQuest has permission to read that same data from Health Connect.
If either side is missing, the data won’t reach MoveQuest. Open Settings → Health Connect → App Permissions to check both.
MoveQuest reads from Health Connect when it opens — there’s a short sync window between when Health Connect receives new data and when MoveQuest fetches it. Switch back to the MoveQuest app and pull down on the dashboard to force a manual refresh.
Health Connect only lists apps that have requested permission. If MoveQuest isn’t there, the read-permission request hasn’t been triggered yet. Open the MoveQuest app, tap Connect Activity Data, and respond to the prompt. MoveQuest will then appear in Health Connect’s App Permissions screen.
Verify that Samsung Health is actively writing to Health Connect. Open Health Connect → Data and Access → See all data. You should see step data attributed to Samsung Health. If not, re-grant Samsung Health write permissions inside Health Connect’s App Permissions screen.
Health Connect is the single source of truth. It only contains what your tracking apps write into it. MoveQuest reads from Health Connect — never from the watch directly.
So if your wearable data is missing, the issue is upstream: the watch isn’t syncing properly into its companion tracking app, or that app isn’t writing to Health Connect. Check that:
- Your watch’s companion app (Samsung Health, Fitbit, Garmin Connect, etc.) is showing recent activity.
- That companion app has permission to write to Health Connect.
- The activity categories you care about (steps, workouts) are enabled.
Once data flows correctly into Health Connect, MoveQuest will read it automatically.