Long term goal: run atomic server on old smartphone

[joepio]

If we want people to take back control over their data, a nice solution would be for people to host their own server. Atomic-Server has been designed with this goal in mind, which means: no runtime dependencies, WASM / WASI-compatible, lightweight.

This would be the ultimate UX for hosting your personal data: grab an old phone, install Atomic-Server from the play store, choose your own domain name (or subdomain, or DID, or IPNS - anything that would resolve to your server), hook it up to your old charger.

Some challenges:

• Make the server available without requiring port forwarding. This process would make things way too difficult for the average consumer.
• Use or build some tunneling server, which deals with serving using DDNS / dynamic IP addresses. This should probably also deal with subdomain registration. Perhaps use a tunnel broker.

[joepio]

Compiling atomic-server to Android

• https://github.com/rust-windowing/android-ndk-rs and cargo-apk.
• https://github.com/mozilla/rust-android-gradle

GUI

• https://github.com/fltk-rs/fltk-rs is a set of Rust bindings for FLTK GUI components. Here's a video demonstrating how you could use this.
• Use flutter, and use the FFI to call the server as a plugin. Tutorial

[joepio]

My current strategy for this is to wait until the Tauri project supports android + ios. Both are in development.

tauri-apps/tauri#843