Account Sync / logevents?

[janpio]

Per #809 I am looking into understand the broad strokes of the app. Can someone explain to me how the Account Sync / logevents stuff works?

My first impression is that actual operations on the Wiki (uploads and modifications) are async via a queue and this is handles via the "Account" integration in Android. Is this correct?

How are the results of these operations handled in the app? Are these the logevents calls to the API https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/wiki/External-APIs#get-previous-uploads--new-logevents?

[janpio]

Found the code for (some of) this functionality:
https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/tree/master/app/src/main/java/fr/free/nrw/commons/auth

Some seems to be shared with (or better: an ancient version of) the Wikipedia Android app:
https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia/tree/master/app/src/main/java/org/wikipedia/wikidata

So that's probably where it came from.

How exactly it works I still don't understand...