set ~ to /sdcard/ ??? about syncthing-android HOT 10 CLOSED

I reverted that change, because it caused problems on gingerbread. I might do it so that it only applies on honeycomb and up, but I plan to do a native Android ui with a proper file picker, so it shouldn't matter then.

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Which problems would it cause on Gingerbread? (/sdcard is the internal storage - it refers to /storage/sdcard0 in more modern versions of Android - I don't know when it started, but it was at least in Froyo.)

And it wouldn't cause problems with ~/.config/:

dos.writeBytes(getApplicationInfo().dataDir + "/" + BINARY_NAME + " " +
"-home " + getApplicationInfo().dataDir + "\n");

(lines 133/134 in src/main/java/com/nutomic/syncthingandroid/syncthing/SyncthingService.java)

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I have no idea what exactly the problem is, but I got 8 crash reports like this through play store:

com.nutomic.syncthingandroid.service.SyncthingService$NativeExecutionException: Syncthing binary returned error code 3
stdout:
stdout:
stdout: 19:11:45 FATAL: No home directory found - set $HOME (or the platform equivalent).
stdout:

at com.nutomic.syncthingandroid.service.SyncthingService$NativeSyncthingRunnable.run(SyncthingService.java:168)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)

But Gingerbread still doesn't work, see #18

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i would understand this as $HOME hasn't been set. As I remember /sdcard is available on Android. (I think as of 1.6, but surely as of 2.2.)

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Right, but using the data folder fixed that error, so there must have been a problem with the path. I don't have a 2.3 device myself, so I can only guess what the problem is.

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Sadly (or happily), I don't have a 2.3 device either. (But I used to have one.) (And I used to have a 2.2 device.)

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I had an HTC Desire running cm7 (and all kinds of roms before that). But that doesn't really help now :P

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Well, this happens for Honeycomb, too (see #30).

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ICS+ makes up about 97% of users according to the Play Store (with a single Honeycomb device), so this hasn't been so apparent yet. Great to get it finally fixed :)

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I implemented a file browser, so you won't have to type in the path any more.

It will be in 0.4.0.

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