| ▲ | sunnyam 11 hours ago |
| Do you mean Termux? I can't find any other Terminal app with a similar name |
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| ▲ | saidinesh5 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| No Android started bundling a terminal app recently: https://itsfoss.com/news/google-android-linux-terminal-rollo... |
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| ▲ | domh 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Huh, I did not know this. This is also present on GrapheneOS too! (I'm installing it now) | | |
| ▲ | fmajid 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | It is extremely flaky on GrapheneOS, at least on my Pixel 8 Pro. Just typing Ctrl-D to exit will corrupt it, requiring a full reinstallation of the Debian VM | | |
| ▲ | Denatonium an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The built-in terminal app seems to be similarly flaky on my Pixel 8. Also, the kernel it boots into is really stripped down, and it lacks a ton of essential features. I was not able to install VirtualHere client to pass through USB devices, and there's no built-in functionality. There's also no way to open it full-screen on the Pixel 8's DP-over-USB-C desktop mode. Hopefully it continues to improve, but it seems like Google is more into extracting value than they are improving their products at this point. | |
| ▲ | gruez 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Control-D works fine for me. It just terminates the VM and you can restart. | | |
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| ▲ | simlevesque 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Enable Developper Options. It should be in the Developer menu. It's a toggle that'll enable this apk. |
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| ▲ | ndom91 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Is this available outside of Pixels? I still can't find it on my OnePlus 13 running Android 16 with Jan security updates | | |
| ▲ | cmehdy 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The option exists on Samsung phones but is greyed out and crashes if you force it via adb. It is also marked as experimental. | |
| ▲ | yonatan8070 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I believe it relies on some virtualization extensions Google's CPUs have, which most phone SoCs don't support. | |
| ▲ | prmoustache 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is buggy as hell anyway. |
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| ▲ | seszett 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Honestly I don't find it more useful than Termux, especially for being so much heavier. | | |
| ▲ | cogman10 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just because I was curious. Termux is doing a container. The android terminal is doing a virtual machine. That's the difference. Termux would definitely be the light weight option, but you will be pinned to whatever version of the kernel your device is shipped with (may be a bit old.) | | |
| ▲ | yjftsjthsd-h 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No, termux isn't a container, it's running directly in userspace on the host. The only weird thing is that because it's running directly on the host, it has to be built to use unusual paths, eg. /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash instead of /usr/bin/bash. If it used containers (which IIRC it can't because Android doesn't really support it) that would actually be easier because then it could use a chroot to make the paths look normal. | | |
| ▲ | cogman10 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Ah, well that stinks a little. I guess it makes sense, if android doesn't mandate a few kernel settings then working with containers might not be an option. | |
| ▲ | skissane 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Couldn’t it implement a “fake chroot” by e.g. creating its own libc which wraps the real one but with path remapping, and then linking all its executables against that? | | |
| ▲ | yjftsjthsd-h 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That would only work for things that use libc (so eg. most Go programs are probably not going to work). The main way that you can do an unprivileged fake chroot is proot, which termux does offer - see https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot - but that has a significant performance hit. |
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| ▲ | seszett 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > you will be pinned to whatever version of the kernel your device is shipped with That doesn't matter much for using SSH though. For running more complex Linux programs or scripts Termux is indeed less comfortable (but it can still work). |
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