Add support for profiles

hssm commented 9 years ago

Parallel builds simulate profiles. They don't auto-update, but you can find them:

Latest Stable https://github.com/ankidroid/anki-android/releases/latest
Latest Alpha https://github.com/ankidroid/anki-android/releases/

edited by @david-allison

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 1643

Anki 2.0 supports having different profiles for different users.
This also allows a user to split their decks between different collections.

I built a prototype of this and it seems quite simple.
The prototype is based on using different preference files.

Reported by flerda on 2013-01-26 01:18:26

hssm commented 9 years ago

Great :-)

Reported by nicolas.raoul on 2013-01-26 05:59:36

Labels added: Priority-Medium
Labels removed: Priority-Low, Milestone-Release2.0.1

hssm commented 9 years ago

Reported by nicolas.raoul on 2013-01-26 06:07:35

Labels added: Milestone-Release2.1

hssm commented 9 years ago

I'm using this app for myself and for my young son & it would really help to split up
the decks into different profiles so I can keep the alerts and reminders separate.
It's not feasible to have a device set up purely for an account for my son, and giving
him a separate ankiweb account doesn't give me the control I want, as well as being
'another' account to manage.

Hopefully this change would also mean that you could set a different widget for each
profile.

Reported by leejkennedy on 2014-06-17 21:01:15

hssm commented 9 years ago

Almost two years since the initial comment. Is there a branch with the prototype/WIP
on github or in the wild or anything?

Reported by clayton.hughes on 2014-10-22 05:45:09

hssm commented 9 years ago

No, there is no branch for this or prototype to look at the moment.
I have put together something quickly to see if it was feasible,
but have not looked at it since.

Reported by flerda on 2014-10-22 07:08:46

hssm commented 9 years ago

We're currently recommending users who want this feature to do this:
https://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/wiki/FAQ#How_to_use_different_Anki_profiles

Reported by perceptualchaos2 on 2014-10-22 08:35:10

hssm commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the workaround #6. The parallel builds are outside of the store,and so won't
receive regular updates?

#5 I'm confused. Is the prototype lost? You've said twice that it existed, but also
claim that it doesn't (I wasn't asking about a binary, convenient as that would be).

Reported by clayton.hughes on 2014-10-22 19:54:06

hssm commented 9 years ago

To be honest, I am not sure where the files are at the moment.
I might or might not still have a copy of them. The files were not
checked into github or anything like that.

Anyway, it was not in a state that could be shared: it is based on a mix
of a modified app and some shell scripts, and switching profiles requires
a rooted device and running commands via adb. It was sufficient to prove
that the method I suggested above (based on different preference files)
is feasible, but it is not something that can be actually used, or that I
would like to share at the moment.

An actual implementation would not be based on that implementation
actually, but would probably be done from scratch.

Reported by flerda on 2014-10-22 20:07:16

hssm commented 9 years ago

Issue 1991 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by Houssam.Salem.Au on 2015-05-29 03:00:35

MatthiasKauer commented 9 years ago

We're currently recommending users who want this feature to do this: https://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/wiki/FAQ#How_to_use_different_Anki_profiles

That page no longer exists. Where should we look now?

flerda commented 9 years ago

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/FAQ#how-to-use-different-anki-profiles

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timrae commented 8 years ago

I've made a one-time release of 3 parallel builds for v2.5beta16: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/releases/tag/v2.5beta16

These will probably not be updated in the future, but I've created a bash script that you can use to easily make your own parallel builds in the future.

michalpravda commented 8 years ago

For me it is by far the most important missing feature, don't know how to "vote it up"

timrae commented 8 years ago

There isn't a way to vote issues up and open source developers don't tend to work on features based on their popularity anyway (rather on issues that are fun or personally useful for them). If the feature is really important to you, I'd suggest offering a bounty to give developers a financial incentive.

michalpravda commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the reply, I have in the meantime experimented with your parallel builds and after some struggling made that work. The most (and the only) non-obvious thing being the necessity to change the collection location in each (well, in "n-1") parallel build. I'm willing to pay about 5$ for the parallel builds and another 10 as a thank you for the application, but:

don't know if it would please you or you would feel offended since it is such a small amount
don't know how to easily do it (have Paypal, card - have been searching a way for ten minutes now)

timrae commented 8 years ago

@michalpravda

It's not possible to donate directly to AnkiDroid, but if there is a specific feature that you would like to incentivize developers to work on, there are sites where you can set a "bounty". Even if you can only pledge a small amount, others may also pledge something which together could form enough to motivate a developer.

I've never used it before, but https://www.bountysource.com/ appears to be one popular website for doing this.

mikehardy commented 6 years ago

@timrae are you still interested in merging changes to support multiple profiles in AnkiDroid? I'm going to do a parallel build first (I could do 2 or 3 and publish those as well if there is interest...) but since it would affect UI (for switching) plus lots of storage stuff I don't even want to think much about it if there's no interest...

timrae commented 6 years ago

@Mike Hardy

Yes, definitely interested in merging profile support if done right!

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michalpravda commented 6 years ago

@Mike Hardy

I'm interested as well. I have three parallel 2.5beta16 on my phone. Used weekly by me and my kids. Would be interested in more up to date parallel builds if the profile feature didn't work out.

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mikehardy commented 6 years ago

@michalpravda As mentioned I'm first trying to do fresh parallel builds - it's not the most useful work but I'm becoming familiar with mobile development in general and the AnkiDroid codebase specifically at the same time so it's useful for me. Unfortunately I ran into some problems immediately - the parallel builds script had an interaction with the current AndroidStudio build system, and it didn't change the storage directory (leading to confusion others noted). While those were easy then when I built and installed my "AnkiDroid.A" it it didn't work out of the box - as if the startup intent of the system were still referring to "AnkiDroid" instead of "AnkiDroid.A" for instance. My progress is available on a topic branch on my local fork, if any one else has interest as well - my work on it will be pretty intermittent - https://github.com/mikehardy/Anki-Android/tree/parallel1

michalpravda commented 6 years ago

@mikehardy - I have no experience with mobile development, but I do remember that it took me some time to configure the builds I had received from @TimRae. The problem was that all instances pointed to the same path for storing the collection's data. Once I manually set it to different paths (ankidroid - settings - ?advanced? - ?path to collection? (I use localized version and now just guessing the menu entries)) it began to work flawlessly. Maybe that's your missing piece?!

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mikehardy commented 6 years ago

Yeah I saw that comment earlier about the confusion there and updated the parallel build script to change that storage directory in each build as well, I'm having some other thing, I'm sure it is basic and Ill learn something...

timrae commented 6 years ago

I don't think that's something we'd want to change upstream in the script, but if it helps you to figure out the code then by all means.

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mikehardy commented 6 years ago

Hmm - Looking at the effects of different storage locations will definitely help me figure out persistence as I learn where everything is stored in order to implement separate sync accounts / decks, but I’m curious on the stance of not merging a storage directory change in the parallel builds script upstream - only because I can only think of one use case one would want parallel builds, and that’s to have separate decks etc so that they can simulate different profiles with different users. If (big if) that is the only use case, than it makes sense for the parallel builds to also have parallel storage. But, I could be wrong for a number of reasons - I could be missing a use case, violating principle of least surprise, or simply proposing something that smells bad for reasons I’m unaware

timrae commented 6 years ago

@mikehardy

I can only think of one use case one would want parallel builds, and that’s to have separate decks etc so that they can simulate different profiles with different users

Yes that's a fair assumption, I guess was I just imagining some horrible hack, but it doesn't actually look that difficult to do it properly.

mikehardy commented 6 years ago

I have created a pull request with the changes from my fork's parallel2 branch that seem to correctly generate backwards-compatible parallel builds with separate storage directories for fresh installs now. I have generated up to date packages on my local fork from this work and made a release of them.

If others are interested in testing up-to-date parallel builds and are willing to accept the consequences of testing untrusted forked alpha code ;-), please check them out: https://github.com/mikehardy/Anki-Android/releases/tag/v2.9alpha16

They aren't perfect but I noted the issues on the release page, and they do work for me.

However, please please do not log any issues or otherwise create any work for @timrae or other real developers as a result of them. They are convenience only for others on this issue, and I'll pull them if they cause any problems whatsoever, or if the main project here doesn't like them

That said, if they work or don't and you have useful feedback I'd be interested to know.

Next up for me is to think about actually implementing multiple profiles.

mikehardy commented 6 years ago

Future implementation of this should take into account grouping notification channels by profile now that we support channels: #4922

madmanpierre commented 5 years ago

@timrae are you still interested in merging changes to support multiple profiles in AnkiDroid? I'm going to do a parallel build first (I could do 2 or 3 and publish those as well if there is interest...) but since it would affect UI (for switching) plus lots of storage stuff I don't even want to think much about it if there's no interest...

I currently don't use the Android, I just use my laptop. I have 4 kids in the learning to read level, and I would love to be able to use my Android phone reasonably. I tried the parallel build but really didn't try hard due to not quite understanding and decided to wait until it was an official feature, and just use my laptop for now.

And to be honest, my real fear is: If I start using an alternative, and then the project moves on but the 'hack' does not, then it would be very frustrating. So I guess my real fear in trying a hack is that it may be a short term advantage followed by great disappointment. (Consider for example the one person who says he has a working solution, but if people - in other words people I have no control over - cause problems, then he will pull it, and I'll be left in the lurch.)

mikehardy commented 5 years ago

@madmanpierre I can understand the fear of a rug being pulled from you, but I can say (as the person currently publishing modern parallel releases) that the "hack" really can't matter much. Either it syncs successfully to a separate AnkiWeb account or it doesn't, right? So in the future if it's implemented any other way and sync (one of the key features in this app) works, you'll just re-sync.

The only problem I could see for you is that I only do 3 extra install builds when I generate parallel releases, and you have 4 kids! Maybe I could add one... :-)

Literally all the parallel build is doing is making a separate Android app package name, so you can maintain a separate preference file, then in that preferences you define a separate AnkiDroid directory, thereby keeping your collections separate.

I only have one kid, but I use it for exactly this case.

madmanpierre commented 5 years ago

Thanks Mike. If you could add one more that would be nice ! Lots of useless but MAYBE interesting info:

I've been using Anki personally for over 10 years (and did give my cash donation, it was well worth it). I've been using it for learning French, Spanish, computer commands and every other misc 'minor' thing I want to memorize. I have 10's of thousands of cards in my active decks. (and I have them all intermixed by grouping the decks to review, I find it helps get my learning solid when it jumps between French, Spanish, Linux, Windows, Misc Facts etc.., during my, normally 30 minute a day period, adding about 5 'facts to memorize' a day.)

My wife and I are foster parents. We have had 4 kids in our care for several years (all since birth), the oldest is grade 1, the youngest a couple years behind, the youngest ones wanted to use the 'same thing' that my grade one daughter is using to learn how to read.

In my kid's case, the front and back of cards are identical because I am the arbitrator of whether they have read and understood (there/their, by/bye etc..,) the word correctly. But it is SO nice to let Anki worry about the timing of the cards - so much better than flash cards.

As a specific for how good it was. My 6 year old was working with Mom and adult big sister for almost a month and, using flash cards, had learned to read only two words by sight. I offered to take over, put all the sight words into Anki, and my daughter learned 40 words in less than a week, and has been learning now at 4x's the rate the school is asking for - and she uses (with me) Anki only about 5 minutes a day, been doing it for a month now, and she has never made a mistake on a word after it gets left for 7 days, so I KNOW she is learning them solid.

So … if that motivates you to add a 4th extra build … I assure you the facts are all true! In any event, over the holidays I'll set up at least the 3 extras then and feel comfortable sitting on the rug. Thanks.

mikehardy commented 5 years ago

@madmanpierre I'm a sucker for any parent putting in the work :-). I'm having roughly the same experience with my 7 year old - regular flash cards? Oh the pain. AnkiDroid? Just a few minutes a day while waiting in line or something. Huge progress.

I increased the parallel build count to 5, just in case. Happy holidays

https://github.com/mikehardy/Anki-Android/releases

Eventually I'm going to implement the feature for real but it's a functional band-aid at least, though you will have to update them manually. Also, yes they are alphas but I use them daily - we are very close to a 2.9 beta then release cycle.

michalpravda commented 5 years ago

@madmanpierre - Impressive. .... how do you get/choose those 'facts to memorize'?

I use Anki solely for teaching my kids English as a second language. My kids mostly arbitrate themselves (the 11y daughter cheats sometimes, the 7y son never). I've got anki[droid] installed on 7 devices (2pc,1 tablet, 4 phones) and everything works almost perfectly. The only thing not working as I would imagine is autosyncing after the lesson. Kids usually finish their batches then press the home button and run a game. Anki gets "backgrounded" and the sync doesn't happen. Sometimes they even "kill all running apps". It's no dealbreaker, though.

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pá 21. 12. 2018 v 6:08 odesílatel peter horwood aka Madman Pierre < notifications@github.com> napsal:

Thanks Mike. If you could add one more that would be nice ! Lots of useless but MAYBE interesting info:

I've been using Anki personally for over 10 years (and did give my cash donation, it was well worth it). I've been using it for learning French, Spanish, computer commands and every other misc 'minor' thing I want to memorize. I have 10's of thousands of cards in my active decks. (and I have them all intermixed by grouping the decks to review, I find it helps get my learning solid when it jumps between French, Spanish, Linux, Windows, Misc Facts etc.., during my, normally 30 minute a day period, adding about 5 'facts to memorize' a day.)

My wife and I are foster parents. We have had 4 kids in our care for several years (all since birth), the oldest is grade 1, the youngest a couple years behind, the youngest ones wanted to use the 'same thing' that my grade one daughter is using to learn how to read.

In my kid's case, the front and back of cards are identical because I am the arbitrator of whether they have read and understood (there/their, by/bye etc..,) the word correctly. But it is SO nice to let Anki worry about the timing of the cards - so much better than flash cards.

As a specific for how good it was. My 6 year old was working with Mom and adult big sister for almost a month and, using flash cards, had learned to read only two words by sight. I offered to take over, put all the sight words into Anki, and my daughter learned 40 words in less than a week, and has been learning now at 4x's the rate the school is asking for - and she uses (with me) Anki only about 5 minutes a day, been doing it for a month now, and she has never made a mistake on a word after it gets left for 7 days, so I KNOW she is learning them solid.

So … if that motivates you to add a 4th extra build … I assure you the facts are all true! In any event, over the holidays I'll set up at least the 3 extras then and feel comfortable sitting on the rug. Thanks.

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madmanpierre commented 5 years ago

how do you get/choose those 'facts to memorize'?

Well, first of all, I've used Anki for enough years to have a 'gut feel' for what types of things Anki can help me learn and what it can't realistically help with. I also have a 'gut feel' for what types of things I will need 'help' memorizing - for example, words/phrases/acronyms I will need occasionally but not enough to 'naturally' memorize them.

From there I have 2 main strategies:

proactive (when I'm getting into a new area in computers - I run a multinational computer company, I'm the tech lead - I'll go and do some study and put in a few dozen or more words etc.., that it is obvious I'll need to easily work with.) reactive (when I come across a word etc.., the first time that I think fits my profile, and when I come across it the 3rd time even if it didn't seem to fit the proile.)

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@madmanpierre - Impressive. .... how do you get/choose those 'facts to memorize'?

I use Anki solely for teaching my kids English as a second language. My kids mostly arbitrate themselves (the 11y daughter cheats sometimes, the 7y son never). I've got anki[droid] installed on 7 devices (2pc,1 tablet, 4 phones) and everything works almost perfectly. The only thing not working as I would imagine is autosyncing after the lesson. Kids usually finish their batches then press the home button and run a game. Anki gets "backgrounded" and the sync doesn't happen. Sometimes they even "kill all running apps". It's no dealbreaker, though.

M

pá 21. 12. 2018 v 6:08 odesílatel peter horwood aka Madman Pierre < notifications@github.com> napsal:

Thanks Mike. If you could add one more that would be nice ! Lots of useless but MAYBE interesting info:

I've been using Anki personally for over 10 years (and did give my cash donation, it was well worth it). I've been using it for learning French, Spanish, computer commands and every other misc 'minor' thing I want to memorize. I have 10's of thousands of cards in my active decks. (and I have them all intermixed by grouping the decks to review, I find it helps get my learning solid when it jumps between French, Spanish, Linux, Windows, Misc Facts etc.., during my, normally 30 minute a day period, adding about 5 'facts to memorize' a day.)

My wife and I are foster parents. We have had 4 kids in our care for several years (all since birth), the oldest is grade 1, the youngest a couple years behind, the youngest ones wanted to use the 'same thing' that my grade one daughter is using to learn how to read.

In my kid's case, the front and back of cards are identical because I am the arbitrator of whether they have read and understood (there/their, by/bye etc..,) the word correctly. But it is SO nice to let Anki worry about the timing of the cards - so much better than flash cards.

As a specific for how good it was. My 6 year old was working with Mom and adult big sister for almost a month and, using flash cards, had learned to read only two words by sight. I offered to take over, put all the sight words into Anki, and my daughter learned 40 words in less than a week, and has been learning now at 4x's the rate the school is asking for - and she uses (with me) Anki only about 5 minutes a day, been doing it for a month now, and she has never made a mistake on a word after it gets left for 7 days, so I KNOW she is learning them solid.

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sudomain commented 4 years ago

I'm working on a Anki related profile issue and have a question. I know I can change the AnkiDroid directory via a setting in the "Advanced" tab in preferences. Is the AnkiDroid directory the same as the per profile directories that Anki desktop creates (e.g. ~/.local/share/Anki2/User 1 )? At the very least it seems similar in structure (collection.anki2, collection.media, etc.)

I'm only asking because I have been able to install Anki 2.1 on Android via a Proot environment in Termux. If I can tell AnkiDroid to use my Anki profile as the AnkiDroid directory then I'll save a fair amount of space on my device since I wont need two copies of my collection. I also don't want to corrupt my collection though.

mikehardy commented 4 years ago

I wouldn't trust it - the databases themselves are similar enough they should be identical, but each system expects to own the files, and at least for AnkiDroid there are other files in the directory besides just the collection. That said, if you wanted to make a test profile to see how it works, that could be interesting

sudomain commented 4 years ago

After a few tests (creating decks, adding notes, etc.) it seems ok to have them access the same database / profile directory, though there could be hidden nasty things going on with my collection now. The main concern is when the collection is open in the desktop version, then AnkiDroid is opened, AnkiDroid will report that the database is locked and prompt the user that the collection may be corrupt. Closing either Anki or AnkiDroid then running a database check in the other program will result in no errors. Any decks or notes that were created since the last database update (updates happen at app close?) will still be in the collection. Kudos to Anki and AnkiDroid for making such a resilient system.

Here is a screenshot of a deck and notes that I created in Anki desktop before purposely launching AnkiDroid and causing an apparent collection corruption. Note that both Anki and AnkiDroid report a corruption, but neither report errors when checking the database.

Screenshot_2019-11-19-17-23-03

mikehardy commented 4 years ago

Fascinating! I think parallel releases and the native interface are probably more pleasant but simply knowing proot exists is interesting. And if a database check and media check pass, I'd be reasonably confident things are fine. At the database level it is not that complicated of a system.

sudomain commented 4 years ago

That's great to hear about the database check. I would definitely prefer to have the same note creation workflow on AnkiDroid as I have on Anki. Unfortunately even if all of the Anki addons I use were ported to AnkiDroid's addon system, I would still have to contend with Android's weird use of the right click button on hardware mice (in most cases, it interprets it as the back button). Would AnkiDroid welcome an issue/PR that would change how the app interprets right clicks on hardware mice? For now, I luckily have a VNC viewer app that sends the appropriate right clicks and keyboard shortcuts to my Anki proot.

p3l4h0 commented 4 years ago

I mainly use ios and it works wonderfully. Also the parallel releases of @mikehardy work great for android. But here as an incentive if someone wants to participate (maybe @michalpravda): https://www.bountysource.com/issues/25121039-add-support-for-profiles

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sudomain commented 3 years ago

I found #3114 while looking for something else. The two features seem very related. /sdcard/AnkiDroid is basically a profile without the surrounding Anki root directory a.k.a. $ANKI_BASE on desktop. Neither are features I personally have the time to work on, but whoever does will be able to close 2 issues imo.

Akshay0701 commented 3 years ago

Problem

If the user wants to maintain many profiles in one device, then there is no option for that in AnkiDroid in one app
AnkiDesktop have switch profile feature for adding, removing, opening user.

Pervious Solution

currently, users can maintain different profile using parallel versions of AnkiDroid

My Solution

Data Structure

We will store a list of profiles in shared preferences

Design

new user opens the app then user will log in through normal login page, and that user details will store in default profile option.
if user wants to create another profile, then he have to navigate Settings->AnkiDroid ->SwtichUser, then the user can perform operation like add a profile, select profile, delete profile.
after adding new profile in list and selecting profile then login page will open for user to login and that info will save to the selected profile option (so that in future if user again selects this profile option then it will directly login without asking for all process again).
If user select already login profile then It will directly take user to HomePage
After successfully switch, Deckpicker activity will automatically start sync method to resolve conflict between two different account data (AnkiDesktop do the same).

Desired Output

Akshay0701 commented 3 years ago

Let me know, should I implement this feature using this approach?

david-allison commented 3 years ago

Let me know, should I implement this feature using this approach?

We should hold off on this feature until #5304 has been implemented.

Both are going to cause large changes to the codebase regarding storage, and #5304 is more important due to a Google-imposed deadline.

One consideration with this change is how it will affect the AnkiDroid API

Akshay0701 commented 3 years ago

Yes @david-allison-1 I understood , I am just implementing this feature for myself and learning, I am not going to raise pr of this.

31SFX4 commented 3 years ago

For info, I've just contributed to the bounty (https://www.bountysource.com/issues/25121039-add-support-for-profiles) as this feature would also be very valuable for me.

The reason is that I want to synchronise only some decks, so I want one profile that's synced and another local one. I have downloaded some shared decks which are very large and cause problems with the sync limit, but I only need them on one device. But my own decks I want to use on multiple devices, so they should be synced.

It will also be good for the server load if users are able to move large decks to a non-sync profile.

I appreciate the developers' reasons for putting this aside for the moment, but hope it can be implemented sometime in the future. The parallel builds seem an interesting alternative (thanks for doing this!), but (as far as I can see) the builds are a few versions behind, and I don't quite want to go through the trouble of setting up my own build environment just for this purpose. I'll try the older builds and I'm sure that's good enough for the moment, but profiles would be a cleaner solution.

Also generally thanks all for your good work. Ankidroid is a great app and very useful.

david-allison commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks! The parallel builds are up to date. They don't auto-update, but you can find them:

Latest Stable https://github.com/ankidroid/anki-android/releases/latest
Latest Alpha https://github.com/ankidroid/anki-android/releases/

31SFX4 commented 3 years ago

Ah, thanks. I was looking in a different place (one of the links further up in the thread). Will try these.

31SFX4 commented 3 years ago

Just to say I've installed a parallel version and it was all easier than I thought, so this is practically quite as good as having support for profiles. I still think profiles is a cleaner or more intuitive way which hopefully can be done sometime in future.

@david-allison-1 Good that you put the correct links at the top of the thread. The FAQ only points to the Alpha Releases, can you add the link to latest there too?

Again, thanks for your great work!

david-allison commented 3 years ago

Thanks! Team effort.

It's a wiki, I'll do it, but in future, feel empowered to be bold if it needs improvements.

Profiles are on my personal TODO, (I'm also pretty sure they're why Mike joined in the first place), but it'll be a long road. I expect later in the year 2022.

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