Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
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Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
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Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#2Will Flock sync calendars and contacts from multiple accounts, e.g., my personal Google account (gmail.com) and my business account (privatedomainIown.tld)?
If yes, I will sign up right away.
Next question: What about sync with CRMs, e.g., SugarCRM or 1CRM (or others, that's cool too)? I need two-way contact and calendar sync between my CRM and my Android device, I would pay you more than $5/year for it.
Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#31. Do I disable Google Sync services (gmail, cal, and contacts) and replace it with Flock?
2. Is my contact list and cal events empty until I enter a password to unlock them?
Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#4FYI, for those who absolutely do not trust the cloud, a similar tool based on sync with Thunderbird is Birdiesync (http://birdiesync.com).
Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#5Can someone explain me the difference between google sync services vs Flock? In either case, the data leaves the device.
Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#6Can someone explain me the difference between google sync services vs Flock? In either case, the data leaves the device.
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Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#7I'm trying it out now. Took 5min+ to sync my 180 calendar events and is taking forever (it seems right now) to sync my 1000+ contacts. I will try out for 30 day free trial, but I will only be paying the $5 yearly subscription if they allow distribution on the F-Droid repository since I prefer to not have Google Play on my phone. Open Whisper Systems has been frustratingly adamant about not wanting to distribute TextSecure on F-Droid as it doesn't do auto updates because they want to fix all bugs quickly (although current versions do notify when updates to apps are ready). Until then will be sticking with ownCloud.
Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#8Can someone explain me the difference between google sync services vs Flock? In either case, the data leaves the device.
With Google Sync, the servers have access to your plaintext data. This means that Google Inc, the engineers at Google with access to the servers, any attackers that compromise Google's sync servers, or any governments that compel Google to provide them access to the servers, all have access to everything (photos, contacts, calendar entries, documents, etc.) that you sync.
With Flock, the data is encrypted with a key that only the user knows before being transmitted to the server. This means that nobody with access to the Flock servers can see your data.
Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#91. Do I disable Google Sync services (gmail, cal, and contacts) and replace it with Flock? 2. Is my contact list and cal events empty until I enter a password to unlock them?
1. You can replace your Google sync account with Flock if you choose. You can import data from a Google account into your Flock account without destroying or altering the data in your Google account.
2. The Flock encryption is used for transmitting data to/from the server. On the device, we let the Android permission system take over from there, so you don't have to enter a password in order to see your contact or calendar items. Your workflow remains the same as before.
Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
#10Great stuff. This is important work to get everything end-to-end encrypted. Any updates on how the integrated messaging up is coming along, and whether we're still getting a desktop app/extension soon, too?
I'd love for nothing else than to give up using Hangouts, but I use it a lot to talk to people from my computer to their phones, and right now apps like Whatsapp or TextSecure are no go for that. Hopefully there will be a solution for it soon.