commit 942e03e3ae59d6bd8900d6c63a2c52b19fc5bf04 parent 60ad5e6a52acafbf5522fab9ff3934ac046672de Author: SomberNight <somber.night@protonmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:01:55 +0100 kivy README: add instructions re accessing internal storage Diffstat:
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diff --git a/electrum/gui/kivy/Readme.md b/electrum/gui/kivy/Readme.md @@ -115,3 +115,13 @@ keystore, back it up safely, and run `./contrib/make_apk release`. See e.g. [kivy wiki](https://github.com/kivy/kivy/wiki/Creating-a-Release-APK) and [android dev docs](https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline#sign_cmdline). + +### Access datadir on Android from desktop (e.g. to copy wallet file) +Note that this only works for debug builds! Otherwise the security model +of Android does not let you access the internal storage of an app without root. +(See [this](https://stackoverflow.com/q/9017073)) +``` +$ adb shell +$ run-as org.electrum.electrum ls /data/data/org.electrum.electrum/files/data +$ run-as org.electrum.electrum cp /data/data/org.electrum.electrum/files/data/wallets/my_wallet /sdcard/some_path/my_wallet +```