On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 09:01:12AM -0500, Stefan Monnier via Freedombox-discuss wrote: > > Summary of https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.freedombox.freedombox/ > > is "A companion app for your FreedomBox server" > > > > Would that android app help with getting a PDF from a freedombox > > to a android? > > > > Use case is having a PDF with a (QR)code that most be shown > > at e.g. entrance (Concert ticket, Cinema ticket) > > The PDF is available at FBX. > > Hmm... I don't think you'd want to depend on the FBX being > up-and-running and your smartphone having a connection to the Internet > in order to enter such venues (already having to rely on your > smartphone being up and running is bad enough). > > [ Personally, I don't have a cell phone, so my smartphone usually isn't > connected to the Internet, which makes this decision obvious. ] > > So, just download that PDF to your phone once and for all, and then use > a PDF viewer (there are several available in F-Droid; I personally use > https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.sufficientlysecure.viewer/) to > display it. > > Or convert that PDF to a JPEG and then store it in your photo album. > > > Stefan
Yeah, I don't use android, but on every phone I've had, including many very-dumb-phones, I've always downloaded such pdfs (boarding passes, baseball tickets, etc) to the phone in whatever format it could display. Counting on networking being available has never worked out for me. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
