Re: *Good* client for Android?

[Martin Alsinet <martin@alsinet.com.ar>]

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Hello John:

If your phone screen is big enough, you could use termux
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux&hl=en> + emacs +
git & git-remote-gcrypt.
With that you could use the same stack on Android as on your laptop.

Termux is a linux console for Android that lets you install packages with
something similar to apt-get in debian/ubuntu.
I am thinking about getting a cheap Android tablet myself in order to have
a ultra light mobile workstation with termux.
On the other hand, a terminal console on a 5 inch phone screen doesn't seem
to be very practical for prolonged work.


Martin

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 4:32 PM John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> All along, I anticipated using this with Android (and, ideally, also
> iOS).  The MobileOrg feature set looked great, and the syncing mechanism
> looked a lot better than sharing Dropbox.
>
> I use git to share my ~/org between two computers (laptop and desktop),
> using git-remote-gcrypt to store on a server.  This makes syncing and
> resolving conflicts easy (I move between the two throughout the day, so
> Dropbox is really not a great option here.)  Sync integrity -- or at
> least robust detection of conflicts -- is a must.  Encryption is a "very
> nice to have."
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Here's what I've found so far:
>
> MobileOrg - supports WebDAV storage.  Has a robust sync system,
> integrated with org-mode, in which it seems to be able to write out its
> changes to a separate file that the computer can integrate.  Sounds
> smart, though I suspect it will require additional hacking to support
> multiple Android devices.  org-mode docs mention encryption for this,
> but the encryption is not supported by MobileOrg.  Also, MobileOrg was
> last updated 4 years ago and seems to have bitrotted.
>
> Orgzly - Supports only Dropbox or local-on-Android storage. The latter
> is insecure, as it permits any app on the system to read the files.  I
> am really not sure how to integrate this with my workflow.  It seems
> like potentials for conflicts are extremely high.
>
> SyncOrg - Shows some promise, but couldn't even test locally due to the
> folder selection screen not working for the "External/Local Only."
> Suspect it's trying to do something insecure as well, or doesn't work on
> Oreo?  ssh support seems to actually be ssh+git, which is nice - except
> that it's unencrypted.  doh.  The documentation made no mention of
> resolving conflicts.  https://github.com/wizmer/syncorg/wiki/FAQ seems
> to suggest it uses the old MobileOrg push/pull in org-mode, but I can't
> see how that possibly works well with Git.  I suspect that FAQ to be
> totally obsolete, because it also talks about a Dropbox synchronizer
> that SyncOrg doesn't even have.  I could use this if I drop
> git-remote-gcrypt, I hope.
>
> MobileOrg-NG - Last updated in 2012.  Didn't really look past that.
>
>
>
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