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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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nomilk wrote: post #64

Are the use cases for period tracking: 1. helps planning (e.g. same way a weather app helps decision making around when to do / not do various activities), and 2. improves accuracy of estimating whether conception may have occurred (vs not tracking). Are these correct; are there others?

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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by openplatypus »

Terretta wrote: post #46
stormqueen wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use GA only for the homepage not the app itself

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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by vidyesh »

Congrats on the launch!

Since this is on Google Play Store I want to ask why is it not viable with user's consent to just sync app data with your own(user's) Google account?

I understand (and support) the reluctance to register and save data in some third party server which likely will use or sell your data but isn't app data in your Google Account very safe?

Google App Backup is basically storing user data in their own Google Drive Account, and is more like a sqlite dump isn't it? https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/backup

And as many suggested, you should consider listing it on F-Droid too if your app requires no account at all.

Good luck!

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by moooo99 »

sizzle wrote: post #76

Isn’t this feature built into the HealthKit stuff in iOS?

Just to be pedantic about it, the app is just called health or Apple Health. HealthKit is the SDK that allows other developers to interface with the Apple Health App.

But yeah, it’s available in Apple health, which may be a reason why this is an Android App on Google Play.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by stormqueen »

vidyesh wrote: post #85

Congrats on the launch! Since this is on Google Play Store I want to ask why is it not viable with user's consent to just sync app data with your own(user's) Google account? I understand (and support) the reluctance to register and save data in some third party server which likely will use or sell your data but isn't app data in your Google Account very safe? Google App Backup is basically storing user data in their…

Thanks! The backup feature is already on my roadmap to offer it as an optional feature - but since you can manually import and export your data, it's not a high priority yet. F-Droid may be an option - but for now the project is not open source. so I think that's not possible
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