Termux
Terminal emulator and Linux environment.
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4.15
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Great terminal emulator / Linux shell that doesn't require root access.
- Powerful tool for advanced users, suitable for tasks like server management.
- Allows for the installation of numerous packages and software options.
- Useful for running scripts and performing tasks like backups and file transfers.
- Provides a flexible environment for programming and using CLI tools.
Cons
- Text input issues, including visibility problems and unreliable autocorrect.
- Navigation issues with swipe gestures on modern phones.
- Lack of clear announcements regarding deprecation of the Google Play version.
- Navigation and cursor control could be improved, especially on mobile keyboards.
- Problems with accessing and managing filesystem permissions.
Most mentioned
- Text input and visibility issues when typing.
- Navigation problems due to phone gestures interfering with app functions.
- Lack of clear communication about moving away from the Play Store.
- Need for improved cursor navigation and additional arrow key functionality.
- General disappointment with storage access setup and repository updates.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-19 |  | | Great app but ever since I uninstalled then installed it earlier this month, storage setup keeps crashing, no option to allow storage access. Nothing 😞 On Infinix Hot I have tried to uninstall and reinstall nothing works. Help |
| 2024-06-06 |  | | Termux is FANTASTIC, but this version is outdated (I belive due to opaque Google policy BS.) For the best experience, download the APK from F-Droid. Also, if you have a phone that uses "swipe from edge to go back" gesture navigation, you'll have trouble accessing the navigation drawer. You can edit the "extra keys" above your keyboard in ~/.termux/termux.properties to have "DRAWER," which will give you a way to open and close it without swiping. |
| 2023-10-31 |  | | Can do the job, but plenty of room for improvements. Mainly with the actual interface. Improve copy/paste, CLI cursor navigation, perhaps even code snippets we can one-click run. I don't need a whole bunch of bells and whistles like other apps have, and they can't do what this can, but improving this would make it near top-tier for almost every use case. |
| 2022-09-10 |  | | This is a great terminal emulator / Linux shell. Doesn't even require that the phone be rooted. UPDATE: The developer is deprecating the Google Play version of this app - not only are they planning to remove it from the Play store, but they are planning to push an update to the play store version to disable it. This makes installation significantly less convenient, and the plan to disable existing installs is a heavy-handed, user-hostile move. Disable auto-update. |
| 2021-09-12 |  | | 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. |
| 2021-05-14 |  | | 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. |
| 2021-01-05 |  | | Cool app, I use it to perform rsync backups and resumable downloads from my NAS, and it works great with password or key-based authentication. It lets you install quite a few common apps, and over ssh I haven't found any programs that don't run correctly! Only thing I'd recommend is for the developer to somehow let you know where your internal/sdcard storage is. Mine was hidden under 3 layers of folders that I couldn't even cd into, but I could cd into the final folder once I found it online |
| 2020-12-23 |  | | 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. |
| 2020-11-10 |  | | 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!!! |
| 2020-09-13 |  | | 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. |
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