Android folder structure

answered 2017-10-11 12:17:59 +0200

DrYak
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http://www.sympato.ch/

To expand the answer : it's not technically possible.

TL;DR: they are completely different type of entities

Your Sailfish OS native apps use the classic folders (Pictures, etc.) in your home folder. Depending on your device, that's the @home subvolume of the BTRFS partition (Jolla 1), or the home EXT4 partition (Jolla C, tablets).

i.e.: they are actual real folders on your actual partition.

Meanwhile, alien-dalvik uses a Fuse plugin to make its data (/data) appear (in ~/android_storage) with the fixed access right as a FAT32/exFAT-formated data partition/SDcard would have been showing up on a real android device (i.e.: everything is mapped to be owned by "media_rw" user and group, and has world-access rights ("rwxrwxrwx" / 0777))

i.e.: they are not even an actual folder, it's a virtual tree mounted thanks to a FUSE plugin

The solution would be an awfully complex overlay based mounting.

Or simply just keep the current situation, and use Aliendalvik control by CoDeRuS whenever you need to manipulate a native file with an android app (e.g.: send a picture from the gallery/photo app using whatsapp).

answered 2017-10-11 09:33:31 +0200

chris_bavaria
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updated 2017-10-11 09:35:19 +0200

No.

For pictures and music you can use Patch: Tracker path settings Android apps get not full access to the sailfish-files. It is not possible to delete sailfish pictures from android app.

answered 2017-10-11 12:19:23 +0200

pisarz1958
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This is probably a bad idea, but you can symlink ~/android_storage/Pictures etc. to your home directory (it doesn't work the other way around) using terminal.