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A simplified touch optimized interface for QGIS
http://www.qfield.org
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QField android app: Allow R/W from LAN network storage (NAS, smb etc) #4591

Open jo-chemla opened 1 year ago

jo-chemla commented 1 year ago

Describe the issue

Not an issue but a feature request - could not find it mentioned on the repo or qfield doc.

It would be nice to allow the users of the QField android app to open a project which is stored on a LAN server storage - eg a NAS (network attached storage) volume or network mapped drive.

There are some android File Explorer apps that allow you to connect to network drives (NAS shares, or via the samba protocol), but these apps wont allow mapping that remote location to a folder on the emulated storage - for example to a QField imported data directory.

If QField itself could allow reading/writing to a network share, this would make it easier to have a project synced locally - without relying on QField Cloud, especially important for projects of a few dozens of GB of raster data.

jo-chemla commented 1 month ago

Hey there, is there any interest for this feature from the community or team? Otherwise, feel free to close, no regrets!