Nike releases a FuelBand app for Android

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Two years and six months after Nike(s nke) released an iPhone(s aapl) companion app for its Fuelband accessory, it was finally ported to Android(s goog). The app, called Nike+ FuelBand, became available Tuesday for download on Google Play.

In April, it was reported that Nike fired the majority of its Fuelband development team. Although Nike made a statement pledging to continue supporting and selling the FuelBand SE fitness tracker, released in November 2013, it was widely assumed that the news implied Nike was not going to release future versions or continue development. Taken in addition to Nike’s historically close relationship with Apple — the company was introduced as a partner for HealthKit during the 2014 WWDC keynote — it was easy to assume Nike had no plans to develop an Android version of its FuelBand app.

Nike’s Fuelband activity tracker requires a computer to sync physical activity data, and previously, was only supported on iOS and Windows(s…

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