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by princevegeta89 1245 days ago
Is it not possible to point BW Android to your Vaultwarden instance?
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cube00 1245 days ago
It's fragile if you do that. Bitwarden updated their API last month on the clients so you couldn't connect to Vaultwarden at all until the Vaultwarden team could reverse engineer the change and produce a new release.
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BrandoElFollito 1245 days ago
This is interesting. I use BW daily (many times) on Android against my self-updating VW instance.

I did not notice anything, maybe the break happened during the night in Europe. Or the Android app did not want about problems.

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cube00 1245 days ago
In my case I could continue to use the app, it broke the ability to sign into the vault. If you only lock your vault and not fully logout you may not have noticed it.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/3082

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BrandoElFollito 1244 days ago
Thanks. I do not even lock BW, not to mention logging out, and almost never connect to the vault via the web interface - so yes I must have simply missed it.
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palata 1245 days ago
I'm confused: what do they have to reverse-engineer if it's open source?
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cube00 1245 days ago
Sorry probably not the best wording. If Bitwarden changes their API the Vaultwarden team has to act fast enough to get the same changes into the Rust version before Bitwarden updates the clients. In one case they weren't fast enough https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/3082
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