Android GUI for tinc

[Vil Brekin]

Hi Adam,

As for tinc on linux, you'll need a TUN/TAP device on android as well
(my app is just a basic GUI over the standard tinc daemon). I'm not
sure it's available on every ROM. I use CM9/10 on a SGS2, and the
driver is included in the kernel.
Same, you can disable root usage in the application (in the settings),
but it's probably needed to access the TUN/TAP device anyway...

The GUI is minimalistic, and is mainly used to deploy the tincd binary
and launch/monitor it easily.
For the configuration, the easiest solution is to build it from a PC
and copy it to your phone's SD card.
This might not be easy enough for the average android user, however I
guess tinc's user are more in the geek category :)

Anyway, any feedback is welcome to help me improving it.

Rgds,
V

2012/9/24 Adam Del Vecchio <adam at adamdelvecchio.name>:
> Hello,
>
> I've just installed the app but have yet to use it. It seems functional, however. I will configure and report here later tonight.
>
> Will I need to specify a specific Device/Interface in order for it to work correctly on the Nexus 7?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
> Vil Brekin <vilbrekin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>As I was missing an Android port of tinc (thanks for this great
>>tool!), I built one by myself.
>>It's simply a cross-compiled version of tinc daemon (with very few
>>changes), and a (basic) GUI application for Android to deploy and
>>manage it.
>>
>>Both my changes to original tinc and the GUI are available on GitHub:
>>- https://github.com/Vilbrekin/tinc
>>- https://github.com/Vilbrekin/tinc_gui
>>
>>The tinc GUI is available on Google Play as well:
>>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.poirsouille.tinc_gui&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm9yZy5wb2lyc291aWxsZS50aW5jX2d1aSJd
>>
>>
>>My changes to original tinc being minimal (added ifdef for 2 missing
>>functions on Android NDK, and a new configuration file option), I was
>>thinking of merging them with upstream. Are you accepting pull
>>requests?
>>
>>Rgds,
>>V
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