Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

  Anyway, I always needed a Fitbit account for our Fitbits (Alta HR,
Charge 4, Charge 5 and Charge 6). Without an account, the Fitbit won't
sync, also not to the Fitbit app on the phone. And to sync, it needs an
Internet connection. Stupid design, but that's the way it is.

Only if you need the Fitbit device to sync somewhere.  Fitbit upped the
minimum Android version, so I couldn't use it anymore.  For many months
now, the Fitbit device still works all by itself.  The app gives you
more, but I really didn't need more.

  So, on the phone, do you use the Fitbit app or another app, if so
which one?

Fitbit cut me off on compatibility with my old phone with its old
Android 8 version.  Don't remember when that happened, maybe over a year
ago, so I've just been using the Fitbit Luxe wrist device without any
sync to anywhere.  If I wanted to manually log its data, well, Excel
works.  My BPM (Blood Pressure Meter) has Bluetooth and a phone app, but
I don't bother, and just enter the readings into a spreadsheet.  The
spreadsheet shows history, and I added trend lines.  However, I've never
bothered recording externally the data from the Fitbit device.

The app adds extras, and some convenience for tracking (history).  I
don't need them.  Others feel they must.  I only wear mine at the gym.