[GNC] [Possible phishing attempt] Re: Android app - anyone use it?

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On Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 at 16:56, Boniforti Flavio <boniforti.f at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rich,
> didn't look at the version numbers and I doubt there is any reason to have
> the version of the Android app (third-party - not affiliated at all with
> GnuCash) matching the GnuCash versions.
> 
> As of today, I did as follows:
> - copied my GnuCash file from my laptop to my Android phone;
> - imported my GnuCash file into the Android app;
> - added two transactions;
> - saved/closed the file;
> - exported the file (accounting book) in "GnuCash XML" format (compressed)
> and sent it to my email;
> - opened the resulting file in my GnuCash on my MacBook Pro;
> - found the additional two transactions to be there and to be fine in terms
> of accounts involved.
> 
> I don't know where to search for the indication that the data created in
> the Android app can be imported back into GnuCash, but the above facts
> prove that it is possible and it works without any issues (so far).

Easiest way to check would be to take/make a uncompressed copy of the
XML file before you import into the Android environment, and uncompress 
the XML file you get back after adding in the two TXNs, and them compare
(diff) the two.

If you then also open the original XML file in your GnuCash laptop; add 
in the same two TNXs on you laptop copy, and then compare that XML with 
the one from the Android environment, then they should be, effectively 
the same*, apart from the GUIDs in the new TXN stanzas, and the times
at which the TXNs werecreated.

* modulo any (re)ordering within the files

The best thing, about GnuCash's XML storage fromat, has always been
that it's just olain text, and can thus be manipulated outside of
GnuCash itself; the irony here is that, in the Android environment, 
you are probably using a database backend, to store the data, whilst
the data is manipulated on the phone.

Should be easy enough to see the differences though.