Termux

Termux is a great for power users and does exactly as described. The features by default are minimal but in the right hands, with the right .pkg installations, can become something both complex and powerful. Being that this is a terminal emulator, it would be nice to have an option to save commands to a "favourites" list for faster command execution when using the app without a hardware keyboard.

Works. Not having root access sometimes makes it hard but it's not the app's fault, so... Thanks a lot. One thing though, you can use up and down arrows to go through command history, but since you don't have the right and left arrow on the bar, it's extremely hard to change the last command without deleting the most of it. Simply add left and right arrows, please.

The app is great for mobile Android. I use it very often. I like its minimalistic design. No graphics, no animations nothing just the terminal. But using it on a very small devices like smartphone, we tend to make a lot of typos in commands. So if you could add the command suggestions like the word suggestions in keyboards it would make our lives easy. It would make the app even more better.

Great app!! But it's apparently not working correctly on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A with 8'' screen I bought a few nights ago. Characters aren't appearing on the screen immediately after being pressed on the onscreen keyboard. But a sequence of characters appears after I press the spacebar. I looked online, and other people say they're having the same problem. When will this problem be fixed? I don't know if it's a problem with Termux, or the onscreen keyboard, or other part of the Samsung Galaxy, or some combination of those three, etc. But Termux seems to work fine on my larger Samsung Galaxy, and on my OnePlus 6t smart phone.

For what it sets out to do, this app is perfect. However, I do have one minor complaint that keeps it this app from being 5 stars and that is unless your phone keyboard supports it, there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to shift the cursor left or right. Only up and down which can be frustrating at times. Maybe sliding horizontally on the touch screen could shift the cursor left or right depending on the direction?

This app is great, but in a recent update, the left and right arrow keys were "removed". In order to get them back, you need to edit a config file that over half an hour (for me) has not yielded anything but errors. I have honestly no idea why you WOULDN'T want all the arrow keys, but oh well.

great shell app for the phone. due to phone security restrictions, it runs in it's own private space and can't access other files on the phone, but within it's own working directory, it behaves as expected. It can run scripts and even has an option to force it to keep running in case you want to keep it's scripts or programs running.

This app DESERVED 5 stars, if not more, ONLY IF we could move the cursor sideways. Without this ability, it's a pain to edit files — in nano, for example, you'll have to click CTRL and press 'b' or 'f' on your keyboard to move the cursor sideways by one character, and then you'll have to repeat the process again for moving another space (this is because CTRL cannot be toggled). If you, however, won't be editing files in Termux itself, consider this a 5-star, super duper awesome app!

This is a great tool, but they really need to do a better job of announcing migration away from the Play Store. Adding a note in the description is useless, particularly when an app is automatically reinstalled as part of a phone migration. I just got a new phone, and it wasn't until after I was finished migrating my data and activated the SSHD that I discovered via the MOTD banner that they were deprecating the Play Store version. That is a lot of wasted time.

Great app, good potential. But like someone else said, input handling is pretty bad. Not only you can't see what you type but autocompletion gets in the way. I just tried entering rsync -av /data/blah user@server:~/. Apart from other issues, once i got to user part, I entered "user@" at which point the entered text appeared. So I continued with "server:". At that point "user@user@server:" appeared. Completely wrong and moving cursor back and deleting extra "user@" also was a problem.

Words can't describe how happy this makes me. The most frustrating thing about mobile OSes is that they're so locked down. You can't even get the length of a block of text or see your files or check the time or edit text in a way that "they" don't want you to. But with Termux, you can drop into a Python shell, you can install what you want, you can use your phone like a personal computer because that's what it actually is. I hate the way consumer software is going but Termux gives me hope.

It's an amazing terminal with lots of features, but it needs another way to open the session selector. Modern Pixel phones (and maybe others) use the swipe-from-the-edge gesture as the Back button. Sometimes I can get the session selector to open using two fingers, which Android send to ignore about half the time, but it's not reliable. It would work fine if opening it used a normal swipe-from-middle-to-edge gesture.

Very good and powerful, from connecting to my server via SSH to setting up an X11 server over VNC to emulate Linux on my phone! The only complaint really is that I can't find any way (without an external keyboard) to press left and right arrows, which I'd really like to be able to do. EDIT: The developer replied to my email about this. On the "Touch Keyboard" page on Termux Wiki it shows how to add keys.

First impressions are good. I think I'm going to find this very useful. One little "gotcha" that is worth noting: it doesn't automatically request storage access, so by default you can't read the contents of your sdcard(s). You need to specifically enable this in the apps section of Android settings.

Nice terminal app that does not require root. Neat UI. Very handy once you know the absolute path to internal storage and sdcard on your phone. Copy and paste functions work smooth. Customizable multi-row keypad for control and special keys. Remember to give it storage permission as it does not prompt and won't work without it. 100% adfree.

Great app to use linux environment on Android! Only issue would have to be pasting text using the standard hold finger... Only works over existing text and prompts arnt the best. I Recommend adding some more buttons to the standard bar (left/right arrow etc) also why not add a premium version for 1 cost add all these extras you have plugins for, some aint worth it.

Extremely pleased with Termux. Initially I just poked around in the limited access to the file system, but eventually found the package manager and was pleasently suprised to find it had quite a few software options in the repository, such as nano and elinks. The one change I would make is to have it prompt for filesystem access.

Keep up the good work. I notice some occasional tiny bugs like command history scrambled after breaking out of webpack server, but honestly I see the same type issues in my regular Linux terminal. I wish accessing device memory was a little more straight forward, but I prefer not being asked for all permission upfront... So yeah would I do anything differently... probably but it would only be worse lol great work!!! Thanks so much!!!

Biggest issue is that the text input is completely nonfunctional. I can't see it as I type, and no matter how I change autocorrect settings it kept adding whole words on instead of replacing things, and even when I turned it off I couldn't see what I was typing or reliably get it to enter correctly, unusable! Sad because it works for basic functionality, and I was going to try using it with another app (anlinux) that claimed to allow for getting distros and desktop environs set up without root.

This app is great. However, there is an issue with repositories update that makes me unable to install a package or upgrade the Termux environment. When I tried it at my laptop running Android x86, it worked nevertheless. I suspect it was because of different architecture (x86_64) that Termux runs to in my laptop. I think you have to fix it for Android mobile.

I have been using Termux for years, I installed metasploit, used irc, and 10GB worth of github but now I can't do anything, at all. I reinstalled it losing all my settings and programs. I can't "apt update && upgrade -y" the most basic commands dont work. Ive used a vpn, connected to different AP's thinking it could just be my internet. Its less than bare bones with NO solutions. So I don't know what else to do. There are no other linux emulators worth a damn.

It keeps saying "Termux was unable to install the boostrap package, check your WiFi connection and try again" And my connection to the internet is good my password correct I am setting next to the wifi, i delete the app and reinstall it and it still doesn't want to work, please I need the developer of the app to respond to me, thank you

On my present device (an unrooted Gemini PDA) I have ~70 applications installed. If I were asked which one it would hurt the most to lose, I wouldn't hesitate a second : termux is the must have app. To cut a long story short, termux has transformed the device from yet another android smartphone, to a device able to support a healthy, stable and dependable unix environment. Hats off to the developers, your work is being greatly appreciated.

I have been using this app for a few years now and it's become an indispensable tool for me. I live in ssh for work and it lets me do almost anything I could do on my laptop from my phone. I have dozens of hosts in my ssh config file and a branch of my dotfiles repo just for my phone. I use it for everything: from shopping lists in vim, to re-encoding phone videos in h.265 with ffmpeg, to using python as a calculator, to accessing web interfaces behind a firewall with an ssh tunnel, to backing up my phone's storage via rsync. The package manager works well and repos are pretty extensive. People complaining about not being able to update or install packages probably just needed to update their mirrors list, same as other distros' package managers. The soft keyboard is actually quite usable if you read the documentation, but a bluetooth keyboard is a nice addition.

This is the most important app for maintain my multiple servers from my android devices. But this app need just one more feature, that is right and left arrow button beside the up and down button. So that , we can go to specific part of a command and fix typing mistake. Edit: Now I have changed my device and I think a physical button for starting new session is required because my new device use the whole side for swipe gesture.. now I can't open more sessions...