Does anyone successfully use GNU Android App. If not get it off the main web site.

[jeffrey black]

On 1/28/2018 8:31 AM, john_mike wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I gave up trying to import the QIF file generated by the Android App.
>
> I exported from Android as XML then opened that file in GNU Cash. This had
> the dates of the transactions the narrative (well some of it) and the
> relevant accounts and about 30% of the values.
>
> I have nearly gone blind going through each transaction on my phone and
> entering the amount in the GNU Cash file.
>
> Now I need to work out how to import these completed transactions into my
> main file.
>
> I think I am done with the Android App. Every time I try to use it in messes
> up. It is therefore a huge waste of time.
>
> One of the reasons I started with GNU was the option of having the Android
> companion.
>
> Clearly it doesn't work. Clearly it was never intended to be a 'clone' of
> the main GNU Cash Application.
>
> Might I suggest that it is removed from the GNU Cash web site. It is
> detrimental to GNU Cash which by and large works. The Android App is just a
> huge waste of time.
>
> I wondered if there is any intention to create an App that works.
>
> All I wish to do is record stuff on the phone and load it to the PC. Is this
> possible / achievable.
>
> What I don't want is to spend time recording stuff on my phone and then
> spend 3-4 days transferring it across as that is completely pointless and
> very frustrating. It would be much better to remove the current offering
> from the system as it is setting a false user expectation. Which it turn
> leads to mistrust of GNU Cash.
>
>
>
>
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I use the Android app on my LG phone.  For me it works wonderfully.  It 
does lack a few features of  GnuCash on the desktop.  Most notably Check 
number.  And it requires a little getting used to for doing split 
transactions.

I do need to trim my account list on the phone, I have all of my 
accounts in the app.  I don't really need accounts like depreciation 
while pumping gas.  The really nice thing is I can log my transactions 
as I do them rather than reading a bunch of crumpled up receipts at the 
end of the week.

All I do is export the app data to a qif file and use the usb port to 
transfer it to my desktop.  Never had a problem with it. I have never 
tried exporting as xml.

Keep in mind the android app is an entirely separate product, developed 
by a different group.


--JEffrey Black M.B.A.