Hi, I am a joplin user. Plan to make a patch to let joplin do background sync in android. I plan to use HeadlessJS of React Native to achive this purpose. The code size will be quite big. Per guild in source, I need to start discussion in this forum. So I created this topic. If you have any quest…

Thanks to Chen for this fantastic improvement. Just coming from Evernote I am actually baffled at what Joplin can do. Background syncing is also for me a missing feature. Not because Evernote could do it (it does not) but because sync on Joplin is longer (in spite of the fact I use Joplin Cloud) an…

Still using it daily? Any downsides? I'm tempted to try it out. Will I need to rebuild the resources/database at the first sync? Is it better to uninstall the official Joplin apk first, with all its data/cache? Also, does it drain the battery a lot when not in use? Thanks for this great addition

Oh @Chen you're amazing! Would you mind creating a Pull Request for this after putting it behind a beta option? There were already other settings like that: [image] Maybe Lauren would consider merging it then. Thank you so much for your work! I was waiting for this since ages !

[image] alexanderadam: Oh @Chen you're amazing! Would you mind creating a Pull Request for this after putting it behind a beta option? There were already other settings like that: [image] Maybe Lauren would consider merging it then. Thank you so much for your work! I was waiting for this s…

Hi, Sorry for later reply. What a busy april! My application was just a prototype, it contains some bug. As far as I observed, sometime, it will block phone to sleep. Still try to find time to debug it. I can merge the latest change when I have time. Hope I can finish it next month. Thanks, Che…

Hello @Chen , I hope everything is going well for you in April. You're doing an amazing job, truly. Thank you so much. It's wonderful to read your message again. Know that there are followers eagerly awaiting your work.

Too many activities in this summer. Hope to find time at the end of the year.

I am also eagerly following the topic of mobile background syncing as my wife does not “follow the rules” to make mobile syncing work so I end up having to sync her phone manually all the time and resolve conflicts (as she expects it to “just work” - we transitioned from OneNote where syncing wasn’t…

I had another look into the topic. It’s been a while since I followed discussions on background sync, but the PR which was rejected due to ‘reliability reasons’ implemented a background service, for which the Android OS enforces some strict limitations. However I don’t recall if anyone has ever pro…

Background sync in android

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muzak 1 October 2024 13:45 30

Hi @Chen, would you happen to have any updates on implementing background sync?

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Background sync in android

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