feature request. standalone encrypted database about simple-contacts HOT 17 OPEN

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a private database has been added, hidden from other apps. I dont plan encrypting it, but I will leave the ticket open anyway.

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Encryption would be awesome!
Great work !
Regards..

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ye create a different issue for that please. Currently the contacts.db is stored at the internal app space, Im not really modifying its path.

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For reference, I created it here #275

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Even if it's not encrypted it could be useful to decide its location.

A really good use case for people that don't want to rely on a Google account to sync their contact list between devices (mobile/desktop) could be to set the location of the database (or even the location of a vcf replica that gets updated each time the database receives an update) into a path that is used by sharing app like Syncthing that performs end-to-end encryption, making the encryption a lesser urgent matter.

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I see that there is an sqlite contacts.db stored somewhere but I can't find it when I look for it with a file manager app under /Android/data/com.simplemobiletools.contacts/.

It is available only when I turn adb root and then I'm able to pull it from /data/data/com.simplemobiletools.contacts/databases/contacts.db.

Would you find it useful to provide a way to either make it visible or move a copy of it elsewhere?

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@tibbi Do you think the above mentioned feature request deserves an issue on its own?

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it was actually added in 3.2.0 already released 10 days ago, I just didnt write it here

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It appears that when trying to import it created vnd.sec.contact.phone and added the contacts there..

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at selecting the target contact source you should see an item called "Phone storage (not visible by other apps)", select that one.

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ye I can reproduce your case only on an emulator, maybe Ill improve it someday. For now it isnt worth spending too much time on. Once you select a contact source at creating a contact it will be remembered.

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@sefernet and @nutpantz, why not encrypt your storage-device rather than rely upon the suggested encryptive method of this software? Surely the former is more secure, considering that any encryption that Simple Contacts performs is probably reversible by it.

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