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see also: iSH for iOS ( https://ish.app/ )
The key caveat being that iSH does x86 emulation to achieve this, but otherwise it seems to looks pretty darn nice. I have yet to try it but now that I've switched over to iOS I may just download it to compare usage vs Termux.
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Just a few days ago I thought about using termux-api to do a quick poc for a monitoring application. Namely, I wanted to send an SMS when an event occurred. Termux-api used to offer this [0], but apparently some time ago google decided to make it impossible: > Usage of this API is no longer allowed by Google and we had to disable it to prevent delisting of Termux:API application from the Google Play. It's my device,…
You can buy Linux phones right now!
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...
If you want to do something other than Instagram then don't buy devices that run "mobile" OSes.
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If you want to do something other than Instagram then don't buy devices that run "mobile" OSes.
It's easy to say that, but the competition isn't all that great so your comment isn't really adding much.
It's not shiny but it does work. Continuing to use abusive software is a disservice to yourself and everyone around you.
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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…
One would think a stern warning dialog would be sufficient...
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...
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.
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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.
It's a shame as it you can make much more powerful apps with a native API.
It is the main userspace programming APIs are written in. Followed by the increased use of Kotlin.
In both cases, the final execution tier does produce a pure binary, when the device is idle, after getting the PGO data from the JIT tier.
The NDK C and C++ APIs are based on ISO C, ISO C++, OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenSL (now replaced by AAudio), and Android specific native APIs.
Plenty of choice, just not Linux specific APIs.
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...
The workaround won't help with self-installed executables though, right? Like when I cross-compile something on my dekstop and copy the executable to run under Termux?
I don't have much experience with DEBs, but have quite a bit with RPMs and their spec files which are used to create them, and this wouldn't be that hard to do with an RPM (and you can convert RPMs to DEBs in many cases with utilities).
what do people use this for? While I was really excited when i encountered it, I didn't find any practical uses.
- grabbing albums off my PC with sftp
- easy way to unzip files
- play audio via mpv
- run `xdg-open` on a file and get a native popup to select an app to open it with
- ssh into your other machines, works well to pick up your irc chat away from your pc if you use irssi + tmux (or weechat, or screen, etc.)
- use a "real" editor like vim or emacs locally on your phone
- api stuff, you can control the torch, notifications, etc. you can make scripts around that (imagine a simple `sleep 30m && ...` sort of one liner that turns on your light and plays some audio to wake you from a nap (I haven't done much with this part of termux)
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You can buy Linux phones right now!
Any thoughts on the best options for those of us wanting one? It seems pretty much to be Pinephone or Librem 5, are there others? Both are preorder only. Anything generally available?
Check out the devices[0] list on the postmarketOS wiki to see which Android phones and other things have support. In general none of them will work as well as the PinePhone, because Pine isn't fighting this sort of thing the way most manufacturers are, but it could be a fun thing to look into if you own anything already supported. You could also port it to a device not yet on the list if you're up for it.