Exchangeable backends

[nightscape]

Hi @burhanrashid52,

I'm currently in the process of switching from Todoist to org-mode as project management solution.
One thing where org-mode is a bit behind is a good-looking UI for Android.
There's orgzly and it does its job, but it's far from being intuitive.
Now I'm wondering if it would be possible to use WhatTodo as a frontend to org-mode.
In order to do that, one would have to hide the current *Database classes behind abstract classes and provide another implementation of those classes using org-mode (potentially based on code from orgro).

I'm not a 100% how much effort this would be and if I want to invest the effort, but I wanted to ask in advance if this is a direction you could see the project evolving to, i.e. WhatTodo being really nice UI for different "storage mechanisms", with a built-in DB being the default.

[nightscape]

Another interesting option might be to use something like Firebase Cloud Firestore to turn this app into a collaborative one, which would almost make it a replacement for Todoist.

[burhanrashid52]

@nightscape Yes. I agree with you and I am also looking forward in the same direction. Instead of a concrete class, it should expose the abstract class. This will allow us to swipe the data source. Ex Firebase. We can have different implementations for each platform as well.
A good starting point to learn this is from flutter_architecture_samples where they have different implementation of TodoRepository.

[burhanrashid52]

I will be happy to see a PR on this :)
Let me know if you want to discuss more. We can move this into GitHub discussion.

[nightscape]

The flutter_architecture_samples are exactly what I had in mind!
Down to the point where they have a ReactiveTodosRepository which streams the current Todos and therefore allows for real-time updates.