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[Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 09:57 -0500, Robert Schroll wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Well, I'm sure each app could have a place to let you specify your 
> OwnCloud credentials.  Or it may be listed as a service provider.  If
> you wanted to do it yourself, you'd need to break application 
> confinement.  As the Open Store shows, you can do that without making
> the phone writable.

Exactly what I just suggested we avoid. Developers aren't going to add
specific OwnCloud syncing support to every app, with all the UI work,
authentication and error handling that goes with that (I certainly
won't).

If we can automatically sync the U1db.Database that app developers are
already using, then we get syncing of app data for free. There is no
extra app development required to enable this syncing, it can be
handled entirely from the OS.

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