Not able to access SDCard on Chromebook.

[liuchang0920]

Thanks for this great product.

It seems that on chromebook, the SDCard is mounted in the path: ///_SDCard. And by executing "termux-setup-storage" still could not able to find the path to sdcard.
Is this a constraint that chromeos forces? If so, this feature would only available when there is updates on chromeos then.

Thanks.

[liuchang0920]

I will be appreciated if there is any information on this

[Quasic]

I had to create the symlink manually. (ln -s ...) If that doesn't work, I'm afraid I don't have a chromebook to test.

[liuchang0920]

then i think it might need google to expose the visibility of sdcard

[timnolte]

I believe Termux needs a code change as indicated on this Chromium issue concerning how ARC has implemented the storage access API.

I think the relevant API implementation that is needed would be the removable storage API.

[Quasic]

@timnolte, that appears to be for Java only. Native binary applications wouldn't be able to use it without some kind of wrapper that runs Java code, which would probably be slow... That's why we don't use the normal access framework for Android.

[timnolte]

@Quasic I'll be honest I've done zero Android development but I don't understand how your statement makes any sense. Just looking at the GitHub repo and the Termux source code is Java. Regardless the issue is that on a Chromebook SD Cards are accessed differently. The /sdcard location is not really and SD card storage location at all on a Chromebook.

[liuchang0920]

yes, i have tried according to the wiki page. it seems chromeos doesnt expose sdcard as normal andoird device.

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[Quasic]

@timnolte, the SDcard issue has been confusing since #20. Only recently could an app be written in non-Java. (A Java wrapper was required, which could load other code, as termux does.) Very few of the commands in termux are written in Java, and these have to use the old dalvikvm, used by KitKat. The package sources can be found by following the packages repo.

On my phone, /sdcard points to internal storage, so idk why it has that name except for historical reasons.