So it seems the Android app works pretty well on a variety of systems. Only report of 100% failure so far is on Cyanogenmod 7.2 (Android 2.3.7).

Worked today on some of the obvious bugs.

• Turns out that getEnvironment is broken on Android, returning no environment, which explains the weird git behavior where it complains that it cannot determine the username and email (because it sees no USER or HOST), and suggests setting them in the global git config (which it ignores, because it sees no HOME). Put in a work around for this that makes git annex init more pleasant, and opened a bug report on ghc-android.
• Made the Android app detect when it's been upgraded, and re-link all the commands, etc.
• Fixed the bug that made git-annex assistant on Android re-add all existing files on startup.
• Enabled a few useful things in busybox. Including vi.
• Replaced the service notification icon with one with the git-annex logo.
• Made the terminal not close immediately when the shell exits, which should aid in debugging of certain types of crashes.

I want to set up an autobuilder for Android, but to do that I need to install all the haskell libraries on my server. Since getting them built for Android involved several days of hacking the first time, this will be an opportunity to make sure I can replicate that. Hopefully in less time.