[Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

[tmetro+blu at gmail.com (Tom Metro)]

David Kramer wrote:
> ...even if I don't officially sync with GMail, etc, Google gets my
> data as a natural process of storing ANY data in the sqlite tables...

My level of knowledge with this isn't deep enough that I can answer that
with first hand experience, but what you've stated doesn't fit my
understanding from the conversation I ad with an app developer.

To clarify with an example, consider an email application. It has two
major things it stores: 1. settings, such as your mail account settings
and display preferences, and 2. your downloaded/cached email.

For #2, the application might use SQLite tables or plain text files.
These are not transparently synced to the cloud.

For #1, if the app is using Android's API for storing settings, these
settings will be transparently synced to the cloud.


Some evidence to support this partitioning of data: If you look into
data backup for apps, you'll find some apps that can be configured to
put the #2-type data onto the SDcard, and some non-root backup tools
that can backup the #2-type data, but usually the #1-type data is out of
reach.

 -Tom

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