Android: Change location of the navit home directory

[elhennig]

I wanted to import my navit bookmarks from my freerunner installation on my new android phone. I do not know where the file bookmark.txt is stored. It would be the best to make the location configurable.

[elhennig]

The recent destinations file should be configurable, too.

[elhennig]

Is there already way to change /data/data/org.navitproject.navit/home to a custom location (for example to /sdcard/navit)?

[ps333]

Or maybe adding the possibility to export/import the bookmarks? Note that unrooted Android phones offer no access to the bookmark.txt file.

[elhennig]

Replying to https://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/user:ps333:

Note that unrooted Android phones offer no access to the bookmark.txt file.

THat's why I asked to change the home directory to a location on the sdcard /sdcard/navit On my openmoko freerunner navit used the home directory /home/root/.navit so it should be rather simple to change this for android

[tegzed]

patch to move user dir to /sdcard/navit on android platform

[tegzed]

Hello,

The attached patch should move the NAVIT_USER_DATADIR to /sdcard/navit on android platform.

Bye, Dandor

[elhennig]

In the latest svn revision the files bookmark.txt, center.txt, destination.txt, odometer.txt are still written to /data/data/org.navitproject.navit/home

What can I do to redirect this to /sdcard/navit for example? Is this possible or when will this option be available?

[tryagain]

Applying this patch as it is will make you lose all your bookmarks and recent destinations. Your bookmarks will remain in their old location, and navit will create a new empty bookmarks.txt file in the new location.

We definitely need some way to import/export internal navit data on android platform. I was trying to work on that feature but currently it's frozen due to lack of time to get some android gui expirence.

[lars hennig]

Is there any update on this? Can someone please implement, that - if present - /sdcard/navit is used as home instead of /data/data/org.navitproject.navit/home/

[usul]

Sounds wise to me, so I scheduled for 0.5.1 as it is has minor complexity but might solve

[tryagain]

Since ​​r5562 we have backup/restore function on android (see #1148) allowing to export and import bookmarks, recent destinations and other navit internals on android platform.

Android security model is to keep sensitive data inside application protected directory. I consider recent destinations and bookmarks to be sensitive so we should protect it unless user wishes opposite.

To conclude, we have a workaround for this ticket, but this exact request I would close as won't fix.