Privacy and blacklisted hierarchies

codeskyblue / uiautodev

Mobile UI viewer in browser, view the UI in a tree view, and generate XPath automatically.

https://uiauto.dev

MIT License

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Open mastrolube opened 6 months ago

mastrolube commented 6 months ago

Hello dude! First of all, I would like to thank you. You're a very talented developer and a source of inspiration for me.

I have a few doubts about this very promising project:

Privacy: if we send our screenshots + hierarchy to your server, will they be stored somewhere or will they be deleted once we close the application?
I noticed that some hierarchies are blacklisted. The screenshots are updated but the hierarchy is not. Why is this?

Have a nice day, D

codeskyblue commented 6 months ago

Privacy: the screenshots will not upload to server and only store in the your chrome, unless you clicked the "Share" button. (to make sure the screenshots are not uploaded, you can use charles or fiddle to confirm that. BTW: my server do not have that storage to store so many images, even the shared will be deleted in three days.)
the hierarchies are fetched through adb shell uiautomator dump or uiautomator2.dump_hierarchy or appium UIAutomator2 app service. If still blackisted, you can tell the uiauto-dev package version, and how to reproduce it.

Also consider the privacy, the client code are open sourced

codeskyblue commented 6 months ago

Reasons about why not host the server locally

host server locally will make the updates and feedback very slowly
Some interesting service will only available in the web, like share, analysis how many users are using it.
Some enhanced features are available for a fee, which will support the project better development