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You can download and install Banana Mobile for Android for free from the Google Android Play Store
Banana Mobile versions are an excellent support if you already have a desktop version and want to access your files from outside your office. These applications are constantly updated and improved.
Limitations of Banana Mobile compared to the Desktop version
- Cloud storage services other than Google Drive and Dropbox work in read-only mode.
- Import - export functions from files are not available.
- Multiple cell selection in touch mode is not available.
- Copy and paste functions in touch mode are not available.
- It is not possible to print data and create PDFs.
OneDrive "File Access Error"
Unfortunately Microsoft Onedrive Application does not fully support the SAF (Android standard Storage Access Framework API) , therefore when you are saving the data to a OneDrive you will get a "File Access Error".
Users think that this is a bug of Banana Accounting, but instead it is a limitation of OneDrive.
On this Github issue page "OneDrive Android API" you can see a full technical description of the problem and why it is related to Microsoft and not Banana Accounting.
Access documents on the cloud from your Android
Banana Accounting, like many other apps, relies on the Android standard Storage Access Framework API (SAF) to select, read, and write files that are stored on Cloud storage services like Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, etc.
Unfortunately, some Android cloud storage apps do not fully or correctly implement the SAF standard.
Kindly use the comment feature of the storage app to request the cloud service to fully and correctly support the SAF standard.
The following table shows you the available operations for the main Cloud storage services:
Provider | Open | Create | Modify |
|---|---|---|---|
GoogleDrive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Swisscom MyCloud | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Yes | No | No |