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Nix-enabled environment for your Android device. [maintainers=@t184256,@Gerschtli]
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unable to create multiple sessions after updating Android #168

Open mhuesch opened 2 years ago

mhuesch commented 2 years ago

I recently installed an Android system update, which I believe took me from Android 11 to 12 (I'm on 12 now, and I can't check backwards what I was on before, but believe it was a major-version lower).

before, everything worked perfectly.

now, when I hit the ➕ New session option after long-pressing the app icon, I see:

Failed to read the app data. Cannot start the app

and I remain with only one nix-on-droid session.

happy to look for other debug info that might inform what's going on. I didn't see any other useful info printed out.

Gerschtli commented 2 years ago

Could you check, if it works in termux? Maybe we need to update the nix-on-droid-app..

mhuesch commented 2 years ago

@Gerschtli good idea - I just checked Termux (version 0.118.0) and it is able to successfully create multiple sessions.

Gerschtli commented 2 years ago

This branch is 24 commits ahead, 739 commits behind termux:master.

@t184256 Could you rebase nix-on-droid-app to latest master and test if it still works? Maybe would be a good idea to rebase every time we release a new version.

I would do it by myself but I don't know how to build/test it :D

t184256 commented 2 years ago

That's no small request, unfortunately, doubt I'll have the time to do it any reasonably soon.

While Nix-specific modifications are rather thin (app prefix change, a function with some extra symlink resolving magic, change of a download url), I've picked a rather unorthodox base for it: a branch where the paid addons have been integrated (styling, etc) into the main apk.

So even if I find a weekend to reapply my patches on top of the latest patches and create a test APK so that the reporter checks whether this specific thing is fixed, I guess nobody's gonna redo the addon merging.

We need an "Android part maintainer needed" banner or a pinned issue or something =(

mhuesch commented 2 years ago

@t184256 thx for the context on where the difficulties lie.

I use tmux pretty religiously, so am able to workaround the lack of sessions at the termux.nix level by using more tmux windows/panes.

have you considered setting up an Open Collective or some sort of sponsorship mechanism? I know it adds overhead & can heighten "governance concerns". but just mentioning because I would happily chip into bounty for a task, or supporting ongoing operations / upkeep on this project. it's quite useful to me.

t184256 commented 2 years ago

No, I haven't. Are there any bounty-meets-our-saviour systems that would function without any involvement from my side? In that case I could reopen issue tracker for the Java app and move some bugs there.

t184256 commented 2 years ago

Sigh. I've tried an S8 Tab Ultra with Android 12 and it even more broken there, "can't turn BTI protection". Sessions can be created from a sidebar, but not from an app icon.