Android: Feature Request: AWS S3 Drive for Android

Created on 30 Dec 2019 · 6Comments · Source: cryptomator/android

I have been unable to find any reference to S3 being an option for Android; is this on the roadmap?

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carlyman

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Amazon Drive is not the same as AWS S3. S3 does have an API: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html

carlyman on 12 Mar 2020

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stale[bot] on 28 Feb 2020

PIng to keep this request open.

carlyman on 28 Feb 2020

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Thanks for this feature request but it's a duplicate of #29 and nothing changed, Amazon still won't allow us access to their API.

SailReal on 12 Mar 2020

Amazon Drive is not the same as AWS S3. S3 does have an API: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html

carlyman on 12 Mar 2020

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It is indeed a duplicate. Not of #29, though but of issue 110 instead. Which is closed as well, because it was ignored too long.

And it's indeed worth noting that Amazon S3 and Amazon Cloud Drive are totally different things.
Amazon S3 is _very_ open for development (because they directly charge for everything) and Amazon Drive is another end-user layer on top of that, which should be more "DropBoxy".
Please inform yourself regarding those two and reopen one of the issues.

Thank you in advance!

alexanderadam on 29 Apr 2020

There is also an issue for the desktop client #187.

I am also looking into an Amazon S3 option (which would support other object storage providers like Backblaze B2, MinIO, ... as well). While it offers an awesome API and many more benefits, it is an _object_ store and not a _file_ store. Thus metadata like permissions, preserving last modified etc. are _not_ supported.