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avdempsey / ipfs-mobile-helper

Send files from your mobile device to the InterPlanetary File System
MIT License
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could you explain how you could use it in Android? #1

Open zicmama opened 4 years ago

zicmama commented 4 years ago

I didn't understood how you install that App link making sub call Do you think termux could do the trick?

avdempsey commented 4 years ago

Do you want to run this go app on Android? Or set up an equivalent sharing workflow on Android that then communicates with this app running on a server?

I designed this app to run on a server, and interface with a local IPFS node and/or IPFS cluster. The node and cluster APIs are often run on a port that is not exposed over the internet, but if you provide another security mechanism I see no reason why it couldn't run in Termux (I'll confess to having little direct experience on Android). The IPFS API and Cluster API hosts are hard-coded right now, but they should be changed to use environment variables or flags anyways.

I really see the app as a convenience remote control for an IPFS cluster, that should be equally accessible by an iOS or Android device contacting it over the network. The next step I'm working on is making a proper iOS client for this app so I can remove the dependency on the Apple Shortcuts app and Secure ShellFish.

Perhaps something like Pushbullet could take the place of Shortcuts and ShellFish on Android.

It's also likely there's something else out there in the ecosystem that answers this use case. I just wanted to focus on making something super easy for, say, my dad to share a photo using the system-wide share button and get it replicated in a family IPFS cluster.