KBFSGIT port to Android?

[Natanael90]

I would like to be able to see and edit Git repositories directly from Android devices. There already exists Android Git clients, but AFAICT none of them supports your remote helper. Could you fix that somehow by porting the necessary code for using Keybase Git on Android? I would prefer to not need to use a local computer as a private proxy to access it.

I know KBFS itself currently only have read access on Android and I assume parts of the backend is shared between these features. So I would have guess you need to add support for write access to that too?

[dragon788]

I'm curious whether it would be possible to install just the helper in an app like Termux that gives a fairly full featured Linux environment on Android and can be allowed to access the shared storage areas fairly easily.

[jean]

I'm using the git-remote-gcrypt helper on Termux, so the keybase:// helper should work.

From the #keybasefriends channel team in Keybase:

git-remote-keybase is built from https://github.com/keybase/kbfs/tree/master/kbfsgit/git-remote-keybase

[DerBeutlin]

@jean if I may ask, how did you get git-remote-gcrypt to work on termux, I tried it and had to change some paths but finally it didn't work so I would be interested in any tricks you used

[philips]

As far as I can tell the keybase remote git support requires kbfuse which uses FUSE to do mounts. And Termux doesn't work with fuse, I think.

[philips]

Alright, I think it all works now!

#1776