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Loop Habit Tracker, a mobile app for creating and maintaining long-term positive habits
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Allow app to sync data across devices #702

Open iSoron opened 3 years ago

iSoron commented 3 years ago

Description

This feature allows the user to keep track of the same set of habits in two different devices (e.g. a phone and a tablet).

A preliminary version of this feature was released in Loop 2.0.0-alpha, but it was removed in later versions because it was not sufficiently polished. This issue tracks remaining tasks that need to be done before this feature is released to a wider audience.

Subtasks

hobgoblina commented 2 years ago

@iSoron Would it be possible to add a "set the data directory" setting so users could set up their own sync capability via services like Syncthing?

Could be a quick way to enable sync for some users while a native sync feature is still being developed.

dessalines commented 2 years ago

2nd @necropolina 's suggestion. I looked in the Android/data/org.isoron.uhabits folder, and didn't find any files other than explicit backups.... where is the data currently stored?

fairyex commented 2 years ago

@iSoron webdav might be a good solution.

fairyex commented 2 years ago

2nd @necropolina 's suggestion. I looked in the Android/data/org.isoron.uhabits folder, and didn't find any files other than explicit backups.... where is the data currently stored?

/data/data/, You cannot ascess it without root

snoweuph commented 2 years ago

@iSoron webdav might be a good solution.

Yea, using webdav would also make it nextcloud compatible, would love that.

SkypLabs commented 2 years ago

In the GitHub Discussion related to this topic, I suggested the use of Etebase: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits/discussions/104#discussioncomment-2221110.

lkraav commented 1 year ago

2nd @necropolina 's suggestion. I looked in the Android/data/org.isoron.uhabits folder, and didn't find any files other than explicit backups.... where is the data currently stored?

/data/data/, You cannot ascess it without root

Also in https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits/discussions/104#discussioncomment-245999

This implementation would require Loop to store the database in a public folder. Besides the security and privacy implications of this decision, it should also be noted that Android in general is moving away from such practice. It's not clear if this solution would still work after Android Q.

Do you think @iSoron you could be persuaded to accept a PR to make database storage location a user preference?

Even though I have a rooted phone (Sailfish OS ftw) and can access /data/data/org.isoron.uhabits/databases/uhabits.db with root credentials, it's a bit of jumping through hoops, and many cannot do this at all.

This would unlock people using the app to make progress on their goals and issues via syncing the database file wherever they want via many mature 3rd party tools, while a more granular sync UX is under construction, with an unknown landing date (year even).

My use case: connect synced SQLite uhabits DB to an analytics tool like Metabase, to provide better daily parameter clarity to my health consultant to chase some health stuff. Isolating variables is a real challenge, and low-barrier tracking of inputs (habits) is something uHabits does really well :muscle:

fillwithjoy1 commented 1 year ago

2nd @necropolina 's suggestion. I looked in the Android/data/org.isoron.uhabits folder, and didn't find any files other than explicit backups.... where is the data currently stored?

/data/data/, You cannot ascess it without root

Also in #104 (comment)

This implementation would require Loop to store the database in a public folder. Besides the security and privacy implications of this decision, it should also be noted that Android in general is moving away from such practice. It's not clear if this solution would still work after Android Q.

Do you think @iSoron you could be persuaded to accept a PR to make database storage location a user preference?

Even though I have a rooted phone (Sailfish OS ftw) and can access /data/data/org.isoron.uhabits/databases/uhabits.db with root credentials, it's a bit of jumping through hoops, and many cannot do this at all.

This would unlock people using the app to make progress on their goals and issues via syncing the database file wherever they want via many mature 3rd party tools, while a more granular sync UX is under construction, with an unknown landing date (year even).

My use case: connect synced SQLite uhabits DB to an analytics tool like Metabase, to provide better daily parameter clarity to my health consultant to chase some health stuff. Isolating variables is a real challenge, and low-barrier tracking of inputs (habits) is something uHabits does really well 💪

Currently I'm using "Save a Copy" by Rikka to save it to my downloads folder, but yeah the exporting data is a lot of hoops to jump through

jruiz94 commented 10 months ago

I agree with @lkraav , this syncing would be super easily implemented by just letting the users set a storage location so they can then use Syncthing for example to synchronize the habits.

This is pretty similar to what apps like Aegis do. In the particular case of Aegis, it lets you set a folder where automatic backups of your 2FA codes wil be stored on every change you make. You can then later set that folder to be synced with Syncthing.

brog-io commented 2 months ago

Hey, is there any update on this issue? It's very important to me since I love this app, but I'm afraid I'll lose my data

Chickensoupwithrice commented 1 month ago

If uHabits is already using sqlite, could something like cr-sqlite be a solution here?

Optionally allowing users to host a websocket server to manage their own sync would be awesome.

You could conceivably charge money for a happy path for those who do not want to self host. Make uHabits sustainable! :)