Mobile support for go-ipfs

[mNizhurin]

I want to have possibility to start IPFS node on mobile device to have faster and stable access to my data.

The problem of current version is described here:
golang/go#31737
I have tested only iOS version. As you can see there is nothing I can do with framework because of unsupported types in return values or inside methods.

I want to have interface module which will work with iOS API

I also have this thread:
https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/gomobile-bind-gives-me-skipped-field-with-unsupported-type/5303
and I had read this one:
https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/go-ipfs-on-ios/2732/9
no success yet.

[sanderpick]

You can leverage IPFS via one of Textile's mobile (iOS/Android/React Native) clients: https://docs.textile.io/#integrate-into-your-apps

[mNizhurin]

I want to use this project because it have better community and support for the future.

[sanderpick]

It's not orthogonal to this project. In any case, you can see how go-ipfs is exposed to an iOS framework.

[mNizhurin]

Problem that exposed part has unsupported types. Wish to see those parts made with https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gobind#hdr-Type_restrictions

I wonder if I can wait for such type-oriented update or try another not so good approach?

[Stebalien]

@mNizhurin I recommend you take a look at Textile's work, they've put a lot of effort into making go-ipfs work on mobile platforms.

The tracking issue for go-ipfs on iOS is here: #1126. You may also be interested in https://github.com/kjaylee/ios-ipfs-api (not sure about its current state).

Closing in favor of the the tracking issue.

[Stebalien]

(feel free to continue discussing here, I'm just closing this to make it easier to track)

[kuabhish]

I am facing a lot of issues working with textile libraries.

[Stebalien]

Please ask for help on https://discuss.ipfs.io or our matrix channel (#ipfs:matrix.org).

[gopikrishnanrmg]

I found a temporary workaround for this issue till the mobile implementation comes, there is an app called termux for Android, it has an ipfs package, this ipfs package can help you to run a full node on Android, note that termux is a terminal emulator and provides a Linux environment. Unfortunately the app doesn't have services or intents for 3rd party apps to interact with the emulator and run ipfs commands. All you can do is interact with ipfa via terminal, but I found a simple solution for this, which I did for my project. This is by running a nodejs server in termux which executes ipfs commands, using http android apps can also interact with the server, I even tested some advanced commands like it's able to open sockets on the android device for communication which the 3rd party apps can use to communicate.

Check it out https://github.com/gopikrishnanrmg/IPFS_Mobile_Test