search

jabstone / JABtalk

JABtalk Android App
GNU General Public License v2.0
11 stars 9 forks source link

Backup directly to Google Drive #3

Open cstamas opened 6 years ago

cstamas commented 6 years ago

Would be great if it would be possible to perform backup to Google drive directly.

Use case: my kid uses two tablets. One is used by him in school (driven by speech tutor in school), while the other is used at home. Both tablets are set up using his own google ID. Would be good, if we and the teacher could backup our JABTalk settings via drive, to basically share words, images, sounds we have.

Note: while currently it is possible to do this, for non-technical persons (like the teacher is), it is a bit cumbersome: backup, upload it using Google drive on tablet, then download it to device via Drive, and restore.

jabstone commented 6 years ago

I agree backing up to Google drive directly would be cool. I suspect (although I could be wrong) the more common use case is when JABtalk is backed up on a different account than the one you wish to restore to. In other words, backup happens on Google account A and you want to restore to Google account B. Not sure how to make that user experience simple. I'm open to ideas though.

cstamas commented 6 years ago

While am in Java land, am really 0% in android. Maybe time to learn something new? :)

Re account A vs account B: maybe share between A and B it and make the backup location standard/configurable? Really unsure is drive API all about paths, or also about "origins", ie. "my drive" vs "shared with me"...