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fix: disable telemetry for F-Droid installs, add Privacy setting - #73

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Summary

  • F-Droid reviewer (MR 40630) flagged that every app launch silently posts a persistent install UUID, platform, timestamp, and usage stats to the Railway backend, with no Tracking AntiFeature declared.
  • Redesigned from the original approach: a compile-time --dart-define flag would have broken F-Droid's byte-for-byte reproducible-build check (F-Droid rebuilds from source and diffs against the GitHub release APK referenced by Binaries: in fdroiddata — any compiled-in difference between the two builds breaks that comparison).
  • Instead, SettingsProvider now detects the install source at runtime via PackageInfo.installerStore == 'org.fdroid.fdroid' — same binary everywhere, so reproducibility is untouched.
  • Added a user-facing Privacy toggle on the profile screen (analyticsEnabled, default on). telemetryAllowed = analyticsEnabled && !isFdroidInstall gates sendHeartbeat/trackEvent('app_open')/reportUsage in main.dart. F-Droid installs are always telemetry-free, regardless of the toggle; other installs can opt out.
  • Also removed the "Cloud Backup" action tile and "Cloud Sync" MongoDB placeholder card from the profile screen — unimplemented/placeholder, and the same Railway backend this fix is about.

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F-Droid review flagged that every launch silently posts a persistent
install UUID, platform, timestamp, and usage stats to the Railway
backend with no Tracking AntiFeature disclosure. Add a compile-time
ANALYTICS_ENABLED flag (default true) so the F-Droid build recipe can
pass --dart-define=ANALYTICS_ENABLED=false to disable it, while
GitHub-release builds keep the existing behavior. backupData is left
ungated since it's a user-initiated action, not passive telemetry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The API service adds a compile-time analytics flag. Automatic heartbeat, event, and usage telemetry stop when the flag is disabled. User-initiated data backups remain unaffected.

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Analytics Gating

Layer / File(s) Summary
Telemetry flag and method guards
workout-logger/lib/services/api_service.dart
The service defines _analyticsEnabled as a compile-time flag that defaults to true. sendHeartbeat, trackEvent, and reportUsage return early when analytics is disabled. backupData remains unaffected.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main telemetry change and identifies F-Droid as the target build, although the Privacy setting is not present in the changes.

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❌ Patch coverage is 12.12121% with 29 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 38.54%. Comparing base (3e65e53) to head (842255f).
⚠️ Report is 2 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
...t-logger/lib/screens/widgets/profile_sections.dart 0.00% 15 Missing ⚠️
workout-logger/lib/services/settings_provider.dart 33.33% 8 Missing ⚠️
workout-logger/lib/main.dart 0.00% 5 Missing ⚠️
workout-logger/lib/screens/profile_screen.dart 0.00% 1 Missing ⚠️
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In `@workout-logger/lib/services/api_service.dart`:
- Around line 23-26: Update all three F-Droid build recipe commands to pass
--dart-define=ANALYTICS_ENABLED=false, ensuring the _analyticsEnabled
configuration is disabled in every F-Droid build. Verify the generated APK
reflects the disabled analytics setting before release.
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Comment thread workout-logger/lib/services/api_service.dart Outdated
The previous commit gated automatic telemetry behind a
--dart-define=ANALYTICS_ENABLED build flag, but that would have broken
F-Droid's byte-for-byte reproducible-build check: F-Droid's rebuild-
from-source has to match the GitHub release APK referenced by
`Binaries:` in fdroiddata, and a compile-time constant that differs
between the two builds means the compiled output never matches.

Replace it with a runtime check in SettingsProvider:
- isFdroidInstall detects the F-Droid client via
  PackageInfo.installerStore == 'org.fdroid.fdroid' (same binary
  either way — nothing compiled in differs between build channels).
- analyticsEnabled is now a user-facing Settings toggle
  (SettingsProvider.setAnalyticsEnabled), defaulting to on.
- telemetryAllowed = analyticsEnabled && !isFdroidInstall gates the
  three automatic calls in main.dart. F-Droid installs are always
  telemetry-free regardless of the toggle; other installs can opt out.

Also adds the "Privacy" section to the profile screen, and removes
the "Cloud Backup" action tile and "Cloud Sync" MongoDB placeholder
card (unimplemented, and the same Railway backend as the telemetry
this fix is about).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@Devasy Devasy changed the title fix: gate automatic telemetry behind ANALYTICS_ENABLED build flag fix: disable telemetry for F-Droid installs, add Privacy setting Aug 20, 2026
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Devasy merged commit 8d0b23e into main Aug 20, 2026
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Devasy deleted the fix/fdroid-disable-analytics branch August 20, 2026 14:57
Devasy added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 28, 2026
Brings in the telemetry/analytics removal (#73, #74, #75) that r2.1.0 picked
up from main, which this branch had diverged from.

Two conflicts, both where the removed telemetry sat next to new SQLite work:

- main.dart: kept the health-data sync kicked off after init, dropped the
  adjacent api.sendHeartbeat()/trackEvent()/reportUsage() calls.
- test_harness: kept the HealthDataSyncService provider, dropped the
  ApiService one.

ApiService is gone with this merge, so the comment justifying the
unconditional Hive.initFlutter() no longer held. The call is still required —
the cutover flag lives in that Hive settings box and has to be readable
before the backend is resolved — so the comment now says that instead.

flutter analyze clean; 948 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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