What is the Eduphone
Eduphone is a software environment allowing you to run three servers on your Android smartphone: the LMS Moodle server, the Nextcloud server content manager, the Kiwix server free content player. It is based on the Termux application. It thus transforms your smartphone into a mini off-line server similar to the EDboxes distributed by ED4free.
In countries where internet connection is rare and expensive, the EduPhone allows a teacher or trainer to always have their educational server on them, in their smartphone, and to share it with their students every time. The opportunity will present itself. To do this, he sets his smartphone up as a wifi access point, his students connect to it with their own smartphones, then connect to the services with their smartphone’s browser.
How the Eduphone works – overview
Andoid is a somewhat unusual Linux system, but on which it is possible to run tasks, or even applications or processes, in a completely standard Linux environment.
This is what the Termux application does. It allows:
– To install a standard Linux system on Android, like Debian which is the one we use.
– To launch the processes we need in this environment (Nginx, Mysql, php-fpm).
This made it possible to install a functional environment on a smartphone containing our three application servers, Moodle, Nextcloud and Kiwix in a Debian system.
This Termux + Debian reference environment was then archived in the eduphone.tar.gz file in order to reinstall it at will on other smartphones.
In addition, we wrote two applications that communicate with Termux :
– Install EduPhone, to manage the installation of this environment on a smartphone.
– EduPhone, to manage the EduPhone environment after installation (startup, shutdown, backup, etc.)
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Install Eduphone server on your smartphone
For installing a minimal (*) configuration of Eduphone on yout smartphone
download the installation directory ( 1.5 GB)
Unzip it, copy the directory on your smartphone
Download the installation Guide
Vous pouvez aussi télécharger la procédure d’installation en français.
Follow each steps of this guide
For any question please send mail to contact @ ed4free.org