Tiny Utils
Tiny Utils combines tiny versions of many common and useful GNU/UNIX utilities and terminal into a single small Android application. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, and more.
Tiny Utils installs BusyBox, microperl (a small perl interpreter), patchelf, frotz (so you can play Z code interactive fiction games) and dropbear an SSH client and server. Tiny Utils also includes the Android Terminal Emulator within it, so you have a nice, proven work environment where you can use all this capability.
Tiny Utils is not all business though as it now has frotz which allows you to play z-code games. See the screen shots of examples of downloading and playing a couple of popular games (Zork and Spider and Web). Given how nice the Android Terminal Emulator is, I think this might be the best environment for playing z code games.
All combined, this give you many of the commands you are used to having while working at a GNU/Linux Terminal.
Find the full list of BusyBox commands here: http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
Also, Tiny Utils does not require you to have a rooted device to install it. Being such, it does not modify your Android system at all and can be uninstalled in a normal fashion. While some commands, like chroot, or su, require you to have root permissions, the most commonly used commands do not.
Known limitations:Some commands, require rooting your device to work properly.Some commands will not work as expected because Android is not GNU/Linux (tell me what you need/want if it is not working, so I can prioritize).All that said, your device will get a LOT more useful and powerful with this installed.
Source code is posted and I will be posting many examples (over time) of awesome ways you can use this here: https://github.com/corbinlc/tinyutils
Please provide feedback. Rate it and tell others if you think it is good. If you run into any problems please file an issue here https://github.com/corbinlc/tinyutils/issues so I can get any details I need and so you can track progress on the issue.
Also, if you have any suggestions/contributions that you think will improve this further, don't be shy. While I am charging for this, I am doing so minimally to make sure this continues to be supported and improved going forward and I am pretty sure this will be worth more to you than what is being charged.
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Reviews (11)
I had been hoping to use the microperl here to install TeXLive, but that doesn't seem possible; it seems to be able to load Perl modules, but building them on the device seems to require modules which it cannot, of course, build (or download, for that matter, since it does not seem to have CPAN access of any description) -- a chicken and egg conundrum. Otherwise it seems decent, but I'd hope for cpanm or something like that...or simply an option to install TeXLive directly, for that matter. (It's probably too large to install by default, of course.)
This makes my smartphone a useful Linux machine. I also use the implementation of Octave for Android and Addi a lot. Keep it up!
Please Make GNU_Quake installer and Quake Add ons like Urban-T we would pay $2 or 99-uk-Pence to play the worlds best 1st person Game and all the Quake Add ONs. PLEASE anyone Reading this Review install thease APPs you Do NOT need to Root your phone and you get a Windows style Linux Experience. 5-STARs Apps. Well done to the HERO developer.
Ssh not working on Tiny Utils. It works on other free terminal apps.
wget in this package works well
Please(!) add some basic docu, as functions are too many to remember what's inside. Then I'll give it 4 or 5 stars.
don't need to root your device to have access to many standard nix tools!
Everything you could ever want!
... without needing root. Awesome.
Needs More directions
Yet again you provide useful tools for non-rooted users. Thanks a million. My only complaint so far is that some of the more basic functionalities of vi are missing (like u, the :g ex command, ...). I highly recommend the MessagEase keyboard for using these tools (and the terminal in general).