NextCloud as a server on Android: possible?

[Krischan]

A while ago I had Nextcloud running on an Android phone and documented a bit of it here:

Installing on a chrooted Linux under Android?

Has anyone tried installing Nextcloud as a “pocket-server” on Android? It could be quite nice to have an option to sync files, calendars etc. with various devices when in hotspot mode. In theory it should work by installing a full Linux in a chroot container via linux deploy ( https://github.com/meefik/linuxdeploy ). However I tried it today and ran into various issues that mariadb wouldn’t find a socket and that php wasn’t being recognized by the running apache2 server etc. Has anyone come a…

Probably doesn’t work anymore exactly like that, but it might get you started