App syncs every time it's brought to the foreground

[agi90]

On my phone, Lockwise syncs whenever the app is brought to the foreground, which makes it very hard to use (especially on a slow connection). Right now it even syncs when the screen turns off and on.

I'm not totally sure if this is the intended behavior or if I hit a bug but I'm happy to add whatever debugging information you might need.

Phone: Samsung S10e
Version: Latest from playstore (6/4)

[devinreams]

Quick triage: currently by-design but high frequency, but not a great user experience (medium impact). Assigning P2.

Can fairly easily check and see if synced in the past X minutes, because users can still manually force a sync.

Can also consider ways to make the UI/UX available and responsive so as to not block the user.

[changecourse]

I'd like to pose a one-time, 24hr default timer for automatically syncing, since we also have the ability for someone to trigger a manual sync if needed.

There would also be some good improvements to make around caching/storing logins for instances when sync fails, so access can still be available for 'last-synced' logins, but that's a separate issue.

[faogustavo]

If we opt for the "delay" strategy, I think we should also add a new parameter in the settings screen. In this way, the user can manage the delay interval.

[sashei]

@changecourse I'm making an assumption here that we should differentiate the manual sync and the auto sync in that performing a manual sync will not will change the next automatic sync time. what's your feeling about that? should manually syncing push back the next automatic sync time?

[changecourse]

@sashei That's an interesting question... I could go either way, but my initial take would be that a manual sync would reset the timer.

[sashei]

@faogustavo that's a good suggestion; I think it's out of scope for this ticket but I've made a follow-up one: #757

[agi90]

Thanks for fixing this!