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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:28:24PM +0100, u-thti_at_aetey.se wrote: > The Coda client installer for ARM Linux happened also to work on > Android-arm, wrapped into some trivial "sandboxing": Venus runs > "underneath" in a local filesystem while android is chrooted. The above provides a _shared_ Coda client for a usual Linux system alongside with Android, but then it is hard to put Coda cache on encrypted storage - the client has to start early, before any storage decryption dialogue would have place. Of course it is straightforward to run the Coda client with its cache on tmpfs but then you lose the cache contents when the phone is turned off. It is also easy to put the coda client data on encrypted storage, if you start the coda client "late" in the boot process. The data of the client started inside Android will be unfortunately not visible to the possible Linux running in parallel, nor the other way around. - A solution is to run an extra Coda client, over /dev/cfs1. This gives Linux, running outside the Android instance, independent access to Coda. The downside is no cache sharing between Linux and Android, but the client isolation is a very useful property. You do not have to worry about tokens acquired for Linux accounts being usable by Android apps and vice versa. One extra note, Android apps exhibit the same behaviour as we saw on Windows, they open files read/write even when they do not need this, which triggers reintegrations. Thus it is important to limit the access rights with respect to the apps which are not supposed to modify your data. Another suggestion is to uncheck any app options for automatically "scanning all available data" - depending on the size of your archives it can be much more data and much longer scanning time than the app was designed to handle. With such precautions f.i. VLC for android (from f-droid.org) works nicely and is very convenient for listening to audio. It works fine for viewing video data as well of course, if you like small screens or connect a big one to your phone. Cheers, RuneReceived on 2015-11-02 06:47:30