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I'm mostly worried about Termux. I can't imagine a phone without a decent terminal and I feel my options are going to be severely limited.
Why would termux not work in 11?
That is my very informal and perhaps very obsolete view of it. But I could be misremembering details.
https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
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In my case I am stuck with a spare phone on android 8 since they banned wireless scanning from 9 onwards. it's a matter of functionality over perceived security. fed up with google. will check out the PinePhone
No, they just rate limited it and it's toggleable in 10.
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I'd say this is the biggest issue. I own both a rooted, unlocked Android phone and a locked Samsung tablet. I have no way to know how safe any particular custom ROM is, so there's no way I'm willingly going to use any of the banking-/payment-related apps on my phone. I find it baffling that people put their trust in people who are largely anonymous and have no accountability.
Depending on what your goals are, I'd recommend going down the route I chose: run AOSP. Tagged releases of AOSP are the same base code that all the retail distributions of Android are based on, so should be just as safe. If you have a Pixel device, the RattlesnakeOS project [0] will allow you to run your own automated AOSP distro, complete with OTAs, on AWS. It also supports adding a few modifications like MicroG. Al…
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That's my point. Everything available for Android proper is a toy. I have a Tab S6 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage -- it can do a lot more than play Netflix.
My point is that I am fine with it, I don't want to code on the go on my phone, beyond some toy programming while on the bus, train or waiting for check in. Coding on Nokia Communicator (even the latest versions) or Nokia's Linux based phones/tablets was also not the best ergonomics. Also I don't care about having a Linux CLI or something like Termux, any kind of devenv is ok for me, so to extend my list, if you want…
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My point is that I am fine with it, I don't want to code on the go on my phone, beyond some toy programming while on the bus, train or waiting for check in. Coding on Nokia Communicator (even the latest versions) or Nokia's Linux based phones/tablets was also not the best ergonomics. Also I don't care about having a Linux CLI or something like Termux, any kind of devenv is ok for me, so to extend my list, if you want…
I think you missed that my Android device (the Tab S6) is a full 10" tablet with a keyboard and trackpad.
If none of them are good enough, it is like my business professor used to say, market opportunity.
I also own a tablet with keyboard, by the way.
More Playgrounds, less POSIX CLI.
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True, but it will allow the use of official APIs instead and do the application the Android way. Whatever Linux calls Termux makes use of, they aren't allowed and work by chance. Here are the official NDK APIs, https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis Anything else is considered unstable, not guaranteed to work across devices or OS updates, or even selected for SE/seccomp validation. Android is not Linux,…
My point is that the permission issue is completely unrelated to the unstable API issue. If you don't have permission to do something through raw Linux syscalls, you won't have permission to do it through the official stable API either.
This is what many seem to fail to understand, Android is not a Linux distribution as such, trying to pretend otherwise will only lead to disappointment.
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My point is that the permission issue is completely unrelated to the unstable API issue. If you don't have permission to do something through raw Linux syscalls, you won't have permission to do it through the official stable API either.
I have done Android coding since version 2.1, never felt the need to do raw Linux syscalls. This is what many seem to fail to understand, Android is not a Linux distribution as such, trying to pretend otherwise will only lead to disappointment.
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I think you missed that my Android device (the Tab S6) is a full 10" tablet with a keyboard and trackpad.
No I did not, from my point of view we should embrace new computing models instead of trying to turn everything into a PDP-11, and from that point of view there is AIDE- IDE, and plenty of other developer like experiences. If none of them are good enough, it is like my business professor used to say, market opportunity. I also own a tablet with keyboard, by the way. More Playgrounds, less POSIX CLI.
Our hardware is now powerful enough to support all computing models in whatever sandbox you want. There's no reason I have to give up my POSIX CLI. Personally I'd prefer Android native GUI software capable of interfacing with a Linux technology stack that can run programming languages, web servers, etc. This should be obvious and yet somehow it's not available.
No market opportunity because the OS is locked down making all this impossible.
Right now on Android I'm using Termux with an proot Ubuntu userland and running code-server which allows me to run VS Code as a PWA on Android. This is, by far, the best configuration I've found. But soon Google will make even this hack on hack impossible.