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[Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 11:03 +0000, Wayne Ward wrote:
> Could you not use owncloud for the sync imalready using this fine
> with ubuntu touch :)

Uhh, no... I use OwnCloud to sync contacts/calendars.

How would OwnCloud file sync know how to sync settings and such from
certain apps? That would require a moderately complex and hacky
solution, which I believe would also require making the phone writeable
(not recommended).


> On 02/02/16 10:51, Sam Bull wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 10:55 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote:
> > > I'd be very happy to see this work being picked up if there's
> > > enough
> > > interest, especially with concrete use cases to solve, as looking
> > > back the original API was not written in the best possible way,
> > > especially the Synchronizer.
> > It sounds like a good idea for synchronising/backing up small bits
> > of
> > app data. As mentioned, syncing ebooks or locations in ebooks for
> > an
> > ebook reader. Other ideas: syncing a list of RSS feeds for the
> > Shorts
> > app, locations/settings for the Weather app, tasks/notes for the
> > notes
> > and tasks apps, playlists for the Music app, settings for any app,
> > and
> > so on.
> > 
> > Ideally, I would expect the API to be simply storing data through
> > U1db.Database or similar. I would expect the sync to be handled
> > through
> > online accounts, and can be enabled/disabled in the same way I can
> > give/remove permissions to apps for the microphone and camera.
> > 
> > This would mean that apps support syncing by default (by just
> > storing
> > data in a U1db.Database), and never need to add any code to
> > explicitly
> > support syncing, with all the UI work that would need to go with
> > that.
> > 
> > If there are concerns of storage limits for syncing, perhaps a
> > single
> > Document in the database can be the 'sync' document, and would have
> > a
> > predefined size limit (e.g. 100KB or 1MB), and that Document would
> > be
> > automatically synced with no extra effort from the app.
> > 
> > 
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