Instant upload for the not-currently active account about android HOT 16 CLOSED

@AndyScherzinger Yes, of course! Thank you! @tobiasKaminsky Sorry for not pushing my changes. Too busy....

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mh I don't know whether this is an good idea or not. In my opinion we should implement an account management system in our android application. That would be much cleaner than creating a new instance for every account.

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Multiple instances of the app are not possible.
I remember that there is a PR in ownCloud that, at least, shows to which account the instant upload is set.
Technical background: the instant upload is not always to the current accout, but to the account which was in use when the instant upload is defined.

So my proposal is to make the account to which instant upload is bound to easier to choose.
@jancborchardt for designing.

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owncloud/android#1637
@LukeOwncloud maybe you want to help us here? I promise that your PR will be handled much faster 👍

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Hello,

I'm the OP from help.nextcloud.com.
I've learned multiple instances of an app are not possible. OK, an account managment would do also.
The following are just my thoughts:

• the active account should be visible all the time (maybe next to "Nextcloud" ?)
• choosing the active account is misplaced in the settings and would be better placed in the left
  menu at toplevel as a dropdown, so changing an account is easier
• the account used for uploading should be marked as such in the dropdown
• if the upload account is not the active acount no instant upload would happen, wouldn't it?
  That was the reason many of my instant uploads didn't work. Is there a better solution?

As I said - just my thoughts :-)

Thank you very much
Jürgen

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If I understant correctly, this should be handled by owncloud/android#1637. @tobiasKaminsky Sorry, I cannot contribute in these days.

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choosing the active account is misplaced in the settings and would be better placed in the left
menu at toplevel as a dropdown, so changing an account is easier

@jgrete there is already a pull request for that and it will be in shortly I assume. :) cc @AndyScherzinger

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This seems a very easy PR, so adding it to next milestone.

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@LukeOwncloud the mentioned PR is only in your repository.
Can you push it to this repository.
Then I can have a look, update it and so on.

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To get a 1.1.0 a little quicker we postpone this to 1.2.0

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The latest beta2010621 works quite well - no crashes so far.
A minor bug seems to be that there is no "instant" update of the files list after choosing a different account from the dropdown. One have to wait until the screen gets locked. After unlocking the screen the files list is getting updated (caused by an event ?). Manually updating the account (via '...' menu) works well. In no case there's any visual feedback (except the changing files list) which might be suboptimal.

Thank you
Jürgen

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@jgrete this is is a different issue so please report it as a new issue

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I moved Luke's changes to a branch within the nextcloud repo. I hope this is fine with you @LukeOwncloud ? --> #98

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It seems one issue has been found with this one: If the user enables the instant upload and doesn't change the default folder, no account is saved as target account and the upload is not done. The broadcast receiver logs:

07-13 11:07:55.544 14302-14302/com.owncloud.android W/com.owncloud.android.files.InstantUploadBroadcastReceiver: No account found for instant upload, aborting

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Fixed at least for Auto Upload, and that's pretty much all we care about anyway.

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To explain it to other users: we will replace InstantUpload on all devices with Auto Upload.

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