I’m porting a Qt App to Android. One of app critical functions requires that the contents of a directory are compressed. The way I had solved this is by calling tar (external function) because it was a simple cross-platform compressing tool (Windows, Linux and Mac had no issues with this). However, now that I’m on android (possibly iOS) this is no longer an option.

So should I go about compressing a directory? It is important to know that the file will be received by a web server than needs to uncompress it.

Any tips would be appreciated.