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Ashinch / ReadYou

An Android RSS reader presented in Material You style.
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Local sync between android devices using Syncthing #785

Open yerc opened 4 months ago

yerc commented 4 months ago

1. Environment

2. Describe the feature request

For things I need to sync in between devices, I try to avoid cloud-based and self-hosted options. When possible I use Syncthing on its own (passwords, documents, media files, etc) or Syncthing along with DecSync (contacts, to-do lists/tasks, calendar),

It might be possible to sync Read You between android devices using Syncthing (https://syncthing.net). Users just need to know where the Read You data files are and also have access to it, then point Syncthing to that location. I can give this a try, so can you please tell me where the Read You data files are? I'm hoping they are in a location accessible by users, if not would this enhancement be added please?

Ashinch commented 4 months ago

ReadYou like any other Android app, stores its data in the /data/data/<package_name> directory. Applications without root permissions cannot access this data. Android does not have a system-level service similar to iCloud, so your approach might not work.

yerc commented 4 months ago

Thanks for responding. I'm hoping you would consider, when possible, allowing users to select a user-accessible (no root required) directory for saving the data files, to make local device syncing possible through Syncthing. Regardless of the outcome of my request I'm very grateful for you sharing ReadYou.