termux-app

Termux itself is a red-headed step-child on Android, with current releases installable only from F-Droid, and quite possibly subject to further restrictions in future. Mind: Termux is the only thing on Android which has not precisely sucked in my own 15+ years' experience with the platform. It remains both crippled and emperiled by the OS and Google. <https://web.archive.org/web/20210103151837/https://wiki.term...> There's ... some Google Play availability as of June 2024: <https://github.com/termux/termux-app/discussions/4000>. F-Droid's own future viability is at risk given Google's recent Android directions: <https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-...>. My own interests lie more in the ability to run Android emulated under Linux, and switching from phone / tablet devices to a small form-factor laptop (Framework

Some other FOSS apps I use daily: Aegis - 2FA (https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis) Breezy Weather - A very good looking weather app (https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather) OnlyOffice Documents - MS Office suite replacement (https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/documents-app-android) Fossify Calendar (https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Calendar) Fossify Messages (https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Messages) Aves - Local gallery with great organization (https://github.com/deckerst/aves) Termux - Terminal emulator (https://github.com/termux/termux-app/) Unexpected Keyboard - A unique keyboard that pairs nicely with Termux (https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard) WG Tunnel - WireGuard client (https://github.com/wgtunnel/wgtunnel) These are all easily installed through Obtainium: https://obtainium.imranr.dev/

Android Debug Bridge (https://developer.android.com/tools/adb) using two Android smartphones and Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app): * Search for "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2" "adb tcpip 5555" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/) * Search for "termux-adb" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.re

* "Android Developer Verification Discourse" by agnostic-apollo (https://github.com/agnostic-apollo), Termux app (https://github.com/termux/termux-app) developer: https://gist.github.com/agnostic-apollo/b8d8daa24cbdd216687a... (gist.github.com/agnostic-apollo/b8d8daa24cbdd216687a6bef53d417a6) and https://old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_dev... (old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_developer_verification_discourse/) * "Android Developer Verification Proposed Changes" by agnostic-apollo (https://github.com/agnostic-apollo), Termux app (https://github.com/termux/termux-app) developer: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/459832198 via https://old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_dev... (old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_developer_verification_discourse/)

Android Debug Bridge (https://developer.android.com/tools/adb) using two Android smartphones and Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app): * Search for "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2" "adb tcpip 5555" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/) * Search for "termux-adb" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.re

ADB using two Android smartphones and Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app): * Search for "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2" "adb tcpip 5555" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/) * Search for "termux-adb" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.redd

The commit history doesn't seem to reflect this [1], and the contributors seems to have just a handful of commits outside of two main committers [2]. Seems to be a tonne of trivial commits merged from some code hackathon [3] [4]. [1] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/commits/master/ [2] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/graphs/contributors [3] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/commit/549f09573f4631fb... [4] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/commit/c6dce125104620be...

> termux I was excited about termux until about 3 years ago, when I saw that the app needed to be compiled against an ancient Android API version. Google seems indifferent to bricking this project... Today it's still breaking Fdroid updates: https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/4120#issuecommen...

1. Termux application: https://github.com/termux/termux-app 2. See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/mgs67qz/) 3. "Debian Linux Terminal Now Built Inside Android 15+ - How to Enable it?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JSlMfgCeg 4. "For our next release after 2025030800, we've added support for the Android 15 QPR2 Terminal for running other operating systems using hardware virtualization. It's currently only a terminal but Android is adding support for graphics and GPU acceleration for a future release.": https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114132940314692519 5. "Many users have asked me: What are the pros and cons of using Android's upcoming Terminal app to run Linux apps versus something like Termux?": https://ww

> you're allowed access to full Linux-land Yes, but there are strict SELinux policies forbidding you from accessing certain "dangerous" stuff like execve(), which may end up killing native terminal emulators like Termux (despite Android not forbidding dynamic code execution elsewhere, Play Store policies aside). https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072 https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2155

I sync Obsidian notes with Git on my Android phone and I don't see any problem. You can do it the tedious way using Termux[1] or easy way through obsidian-git[2]. [1]: https://github.com/termux/termux-app [2]: https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git

The issue you linked is more or less resolved at this point. If you find Termux processes being killed, just run this command over adb shell and you're good: settings put global settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs false Google added this setting in response to a bug report submitted by a Termux maintainer. It's also persistent, so you only have to run the command once. The more pressing issue at this time is: https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2155

I love Termux but I'm a bit worried about its future. Google has been hardening Android in ways that harm Termux quite a bit (e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2366). It does seem that new Android lets you turn off the phantom process killer, so maybe there's hope, but still Termux is forced to target an old API version and can't be published on Google Play.