Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting

Post by stuaxo » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 10:00 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #89

bosswipe wrote: post #39

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I hate the direction Google is taking Android. They're on an appliance-ification quest trying to hide any exposed linux-ness of the OS, including trying to remove developer access to all file handles. They always claim it's in the name of security but my suspicion is that it's an effort to transition from Linux to Fuchsia.

Android was always about Java (now Kotlin). The NDK was only added in 2.0 to appease game developers and workaround for Dalvik anemic performance. Any access to Linux APIs was accidental and never part of the official native APIs.

Post by npsimons » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 10:01 PM UTC

rektide wrote: post #37

j-james wrote: post #27

Termux has recently run into issues with Android 10 and the more recent APIs, which break its form of package management. Their workaround is fairly clever (although not yet implemented) but means that updates to the Play Store version have been temporarily put on hold. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

Comments like this one[1] that mention having difficulty using Termux to access SD cards keep making me feel like we are radically over-securing devices. More and more it feels like the OS, the browser, are guarding the user not against bad apps, but also against the user. Firefox Mobile only allowing less than a dozen extensions. Chrome mobile supporting no extensions. These are different than the OS, but the same k…

Post by vorpalhex » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

joecool1029 wrote: post #87

varispeed wrote: post #48

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For me so far the worst thing Google did was disabling API for call recording. That makes new phones pretty much useless for me. I always record calls, so that I can go back to them if I forget something or that nobody can claim they said something when they didn't (most recently insurance salesperson told me I will have option X if I take their insurance and they once I bought it, there was no such option. Once I pu…

I got around this limitation by using LineageOS. Unfortunately, I'm forced to compile my own builds with call recording enabled for the US because there's no way to tell which state you're in through MNC-MCC numbers and states like California and Pennsylvania have lame two-party consent laws for recording calls[1][2]. My state is single party consent. Just super lame that all my featurephones from the mid-2000's coul…

Post by ohyeshedid » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 10:18 PM UTC

arendtio wrote: post #56

Does someone know if it is possible to use it on a FireTV Stick (without root)?

Post by nanomonkey » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

mcshicks wrote: post #26

sigmonsays wrote: post #2

what do people use this for? While I was really excited when i encountered it, I didn't find any practical uses.

I use it for emacs, mostly org mode on my phone. It works reasonably well with a small bluetooth keyboard.