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What would that workflow look like - users copy their files from Drive to their device, edit them, and then put them back on Drive?
by eightysixfour 2y ago
What would that workflow look like - users copy their files from Drive to their device, edit them, and then put them back on Drive?
- wonger_ 2y agoBring-your-own-sync! Apps can be local-first, reading and writing to files on the device. Then each user can choose their own syncing service like Syncthing or Resilio Sync, which runs in the background and automatically syncs those files to your other devices.
- eightysixfour 2y agoThat sounds miserable. This is why apps end up enshittified with forced cloud services.
- jasonjayr 2y agoFor apps that use the local system, and after fighting through google's restrictions, syncthing has been a dream between my android, windows + linux systems. I Don't have to think about it. The restrictions imposed by the platform is why each app needs to have it's own half-implemented sync to it's own platform or some other cloud provider.
- Gigachad 2y agoIt’s less manual than that, the app opens the OS file picker which has unlimited access, the user selects the file, the file is then made available for the app to access, the app can then save it to Google drive. What it can’t do is grab your entire drive file list and contents the moment you sign in.