So it can't sync decks...how do you guys handle this?

[stoked]

I see the mobile app can't sync with the desktop version. I'd love to
be able to study my Japanese Anki deck on the go but how to do it? I
could transfer over my deck but then will it know all my spacings and
stuff? Will everything remain intact? And when I review will i ever be
able to transfer back my Anki deck to my computer and keep on using it
there? Is there no way to sync the two decks? How good is the srs
implementation in Android anki anyway? Will it mess up my decks
completely?

I'd love to use this thing but it looks very tricky. Will we ever get
flawless sync with desktop Anki decks? How long will this take? Would
love to help out but I can't code anything... *sigh*

Looking forward to your answers. Thanks guys!

[Nicolas Raoul]

Hello stoked,

If you got AnkiDroid from the Market, then it is still a version that
makes decks unusable afterwards, sorry :-(
It uses intervals in a different way, so even a difficult card in an
AnkiDroid deck could become a card with a 10 years interval if you
transfer it back to your desktop computer.
In addition, it has not been tested so it will probably ruin all of
your deck, make Anki crash, and kill your dog.
At best, transferring your deck back means ruining the cards you have
reviewed on Android.

Here is what I suggest:
- Copy your desktop computer's deck over AnkiDroid's deck every week
or so.
- Using AnkiDroid will not make your deck's statistics progress
immediately, but it will help you memorize.

The next version of Anki will solve the incompatibility problem :-)

Cheers,
Nicolas.

[Damien Elmes]

In the mean time, AnkiMini is running on Android now as far as I know
- why don't you use that as a temporary measure?

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[vacheespagnole]

Hi - just wondering how it would work keep transferring over the
desktop .anki file as surely the cards on the desktop version would
just keep getting older and more would be added to your daily review.
Unfortunately I'm upto about 600 cards due for review having moved
over from a gprs-connected mobile running the web version to a non-
connected Android mobile - some catching up to do :o(

By the way, taking into account the possible affects on dogs do you
know if it will affect cats in the same way? If so then I'll
definitely be taking the risk and possibly saving on cat food and flea
powder.

[Nicolas Raoul]

If you never review on your desktop computer, then indeed you will not
benefit from SRS, with the current AnkiDroid.

But the future is bright:
For more than one month, I did not use the desktop computer Anki at
all, and used the next version of AnkiDroid instead. It is working
great :-)

To people willing to help make the next release come faster:
I think it is really time to check whether databases manipulated by
the next version of AnkiDroid are safe for reimport into desktop Anki.
Without any programming, you can already start from the same deck and
do reviews using both Anki and AnkiDroid, and then compare the
databases like this on a Linux computer:

echo .dump | sqlite3 desktop.anki >desktop.dump
echo .dump | sqlite3 android.anki >android.dump
meld desktop.dump android.dump

You might need to run:
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 meld
for Ubuntu, or get those two packages the way you want.
So it does not require any programming skill or any Android software
on your computer.
Please post any result you get, thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Nicolas Raoul.