add support for running on Android directly

[mvdan]

That is, replace these ADB commands:

# device info
adb shell getprop
# install an apk
adb install -r foo.apk

With their native Android counterparts:

getprop
pm install -r foo.apk

This way, this client could both be run from a laptop/desktop connected to an Android device via USB (ADB), or on an Android device directly.

Of course, the interface would still be command-line, which wouldn't be ideal. But at least the client would work. One could also imagine it being the basis of a client UI, or perhaps automatic updates via scripting, etc.

We'd need another group of tests which would build a fdroidcl binary, adb push it to a connected Android device, and check that the basics work there directly too.

[Mannshoch]

I think here about https://github.com/termux/termux-app and his repo
and for that case you may need to solve the cache issue. I actually removed 3.6GB cache:
#48

[nerd190]

I would also like this too @mvdan 👍
Being able to bootstrap apps on a fresh system "on-the-go" would be great! that way we would only need a terminal emulator like Termux (or even the stock mksh we have bultin to our devices 😶) and no PC needed!
I'm not fluent in go unfortunately (it is the language I'm starting to learn though!) but I would check if $OS_TYPE exists and contains "android" else getprop will be your friend, or even check the existance of two files, both /default.prop & /system/build.prop?
If you can it would be amazing! if not then this could perhaps be my first project with go, thanks.

[mvdan]

See #56 :) Also, you can just check runtime.GOOS == "android".

[B4rabbas]

Hello, here is any way to do this directly in fdroidcl from termux on the android device, I'm quite confused of what I've to do in termux to install package directly.

[jugendhacker]

@B4rabbas currently there is no way of running fdroidcl directly on the device you want to install things on

[Mannshoch]

I have fdroidcl running on termux. The problem is that you have to run adb over WLAN to connect fdroid with adb on the Phone. Thats not so a nice Workflow.

[jugendhacker]

Oh true, I forgot about the wireless usecase