[vidyesh]

"privacy friendly" does not mean not relying on any service at all. Its about understanding when and where your privacy is respected.

If the user is already using a Google Account for the app (you need a google account to officially download apps from the Play store), they are okay with minimal use of the Google account.

Google might be evil in its ways but the google app data is far different than sharing your personal data with startups or other apps who use your data for other purposes when saved on their servers.

AFAIK, the google appdata does is like a data dump on the user's own google drive, its private to the user, and not used by Google or shared with anyone else, it only can be used and accessed by the app which saves it. Please do correct me if I am wrong about this.

[notpushkin]

> If the user is already using a Google Account for the app (you need a google account to officially download apps from the Play store), they are okay with minimal use of the Google account.

I'm using an unofficial Google Play client, Aurora Store, which can use anonymous accounts instead of your own account.

Anyway, giving the user an option to backup data in Google is better than no option at all, although I'd also add a simple export to file, too.

[tedivm]

> Its about understanding when and where your privacy is respected.

Then you certainly shouldn't be using Google (or any third party service that isn't encrypting customer data in an end-to-end way) for this, as Google is subject to law enforcement requests and right wing states have already tried to use this to access healthcare data. The whole point of this app seems to be to prevent that.