Whether it can run on ios/android platform?

[sherryruo]

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[fujiapple852]

@sherryruo Trippy is not available for Android or iOS today, though I would like it to be.

I haven't spent any time researching what would be required to support these platforms, however one clear problem is the need for raw sockets for unprivileged users (see discussion in #101). Another likely issue would be Tui (ratatui and crossterm) support for these platforms. Support for CI build and test in GH is another consideration.

I would like to support Android and iOS but, realistically, it won't happen any time soon. If others who want this support could upvote this issue it would help to gauge the demand out there. Of course i'm always open to community contributions if there are iOS/Android experts out there who may be willing to help on this.

[isjarvi]

Supporting iOS and Android is meaningful as it allows mobile devices to troubleshoot network issues.

[immanuelfodor]

Mobile is very useful for network debug purposes, indeed, it would be great if Termux would be supported with the unprivileged mode. So I don't mean a full native Android app but a Linux CLI packaged for Termux.

[CalebBrendel]

Mobile is very useful for network debug purposes, indeed, it would be great if Termux would be supported with the unprivileged mode. So I don't mean a full native Android app but a Linux CLI packaged for Termux.

I agree with immanuel. If we just had a Termux package, that would be good! MTR doesn't really work out of the box on Termux anyway...lol.

[fujiapple852]

I’m not familiar with Termux at all, however I can see that a patched version of MTR is packaged for it (for rooted devices only) so in principle Trippy could be packaged as well.

What this needs is someone familiar with the Termux ecosystem who is motivated to create and maintain Trippy.

Alternatively a package request could be raised.

Finally I see that cargo is already available for Termux and so perhaps a simple cargo install trippy --locked would be all that is required.

Edit: the Termux packaging policy states that, to qualify, the package must be “Not available through a language package manager: pip, npm, cpan, cargo, etc.”. Therefore, I’d imagine we would need to demonstrate that installing trippy via cargo on Termux does not work. Is anyone here able to try this out and confirm either way?

[CalebBrendel]

@fujiapple852 Just so you know I tried installing trippy via cargo. Still no dice as trippy being installed with cargo does not work on Termux...tis a shame. Android is semi built on Linux...I feel like this is possible and I almost want to learn programming to accomplish it. LMFAO.

Thanks for letting me know all of that info btw! :)

[fujiapple852]

Thank you for trying it out @CalebBrendel. Can you give some details on what the issues were? I.e, did it fail to compile or fail to start or did it run but did not show any data?