diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_195__real_android_app.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_195__real_android_app.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f97f8841ca --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_195__real_android_app.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Well, it's built. [Real Android app for git-annex](http://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/android/current/). + +[[!img /assistant/android/appinstalled.png]] + +When installed, this will open a terminal in which you have access to +git-annex and all the git commands and busybox commands as well. No webapp +yet, but command line users should feel right at home. + +[[!img /assistant/android/terminal.png]] + +Please test it out, at least as far as installing it, opening the terminal, +and checking that you can run `git annex`; I've only been able to test on +one Android device so far. I'm especially keen to know if it works with +newer versions of Android than 4.0.3. (I know it only supports arm based +Android, no x86 etc.) Please comment if you tried it. + +---- + +Building this went mostly as planned, although I had about 12 builds of +the app in the middle which crashed on startup with no error message ora +logs. Still, it took only one day to put it all together, + and I even had time to gimp up a quick icon. (Better icons welcome.) + +Kevin thinks that my space-saving hack won't work on all Androiden, and he +may be right. If the `lib` directory is on a different filesystem on some +devices, it will fail. But I used it for now anyhow. Thanks to the hack, +the 7.8 mb compressed .apk file installs to use around 23 mb of disk space. + +---- + +Tomorrow: Why does `git-annex assistant` on Android re-add all existing +files on startup?