Share data between ub and waydroid

007fred50

Hello,

Is it posible to share data from ubuntu touch and waydroid??

Best regards
007fred50

Luksus

@007fred50 my way, if I need it really, is to copy a file directly into the waydroid container data, using the therminal, for example:
sudo cp myFile /home/phablet/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Documents

/home/phablet/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0 is the users home directory in the android container.

Emphrath

@luksus yep, same here. I made a folder named waydroid pictures where i copy pictures I want to be able to use in the container, and then I usz cp -r * to copy the contents to the relevant waydroid data folder

Luksus

I found a better way:

Create a folder for example "share" in /home/phablet, so the resulting path is /home/phablet/share.
Then edit the file nano /var/lib/waydroid/lxc/waydroid/config_nodes:
- add a new mount entry at the end:
  lxc.mount.entry = /home/phablet/share data/media/0/share none bind,create=dir,optional 0 0
Save and close (Ctrl-X) and start/restart waydroid.

Then you will have access to all files in the folder "share" from both sides.

EDIT
Somehow, the lxc container is changing directory permissions on the mounted directory, which makes "share" only accessible by sudo from the UT-side... Maybe the mount entry must be adjusted, but I don't know how yet.
Hm, somehow Android is changing permissions as soon as the folder is accessed.
So that is not an optimal solution currently...

zubozrout

@luksus This looks great. But I've noticed that when I run sudo waydroid upgrade it will overwrite any changes so one may need to insert it to "/var/lib/waydroid/lxc/waydroid/config_nodes" every time an update is executed.

isndwx

For me the best working solution was to configure a samba server and share some directories for waydroid. Here is the problem, that the next OTA-Update will destroy the configuration (when i have time, i will try libertine to configure a samba server). So i changed to this solution:

on waydroid i installed termux and termux:boot
in termux i installed filebrowser: https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser
for termux:boot i wrote a startup script to start filebrowser at boot time

Now i can access the IP from filebrowser in the webbrowser and there i can download and upload files.

Keneda

@isndwx said in Share data between ub and waydroid:

Here is the problem, that the next OTA-Update will destroy the configuration

Not necessarily, as it depends on wich files/folder are updated/overwrited.

I for example modded a file in messaging app to custom bubble text colors, and for the last 3 OTA, it stayed like that as the modded file was not updated.

On the other hand, if you switch channel, all files are overwrited, and there you loose any mod.

But as you said, better is to stay in known territory.

007fred50

@luksus hello

i trying to make folder share between ubuntu touch and waydroid

i use (lxc.mount.entry = /home/phablet/share data/media/0/share none bind,create=dir,optional 0 0)

but no data in waydroid side.

Best Regards
007fred50

007fred50

Hello,

Can i use (lxc.mount.entry) to share my sdcard ???
Or do i have to share a folder inside home folder like (/home/phablet/share)???

Thanks for your time

Best Regards
007fred50