Another Term

Terminal for local shell, USB and Bluetooth serial port dongles, SSH and Telnet.

Another Term

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By: Aleksandr Kiselev

Users: 36,278

Rating: 3.25

(133)

Version: MkIIIv87 (Last updated: 2024-05-27)

Creation date: 2020-01-24

Email: gr*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Other:

pair with Bluetooth devices
full network access
prevent device from sleeping

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What it is

* USB & Bluetooth serial (UART) ports terminal.

* SSH and Telnet terminal.

* Local shell terminal emulator with libusb support and a command line tool to interact with the Android environment; enjoy any Linux distribution under PRoot right on your phone:
- compile;
- debug;
- flash and debug MCUs in case your programmer uses libusb (OpenOCD with a wide range of dongles, for example).
(No device rooting is required)

# Features

* Minimum supported Android version is 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

* Adequate screen input methods as long as a terminal requires specific keyboard functions.

* Ability to set fixed screen columns and/or rows number.

* Supported USB UART devices: Generic USB CDC, CP210X, FTDI, PL2303, CH34x, CP2130 SPI-USB.

* Bluetooth SPP UART devices are supported.

* Local Linux PTY is supported. Feel free to use PRoot with some Linux environment: https://green-green-avk.github.io/AnotherTerm-docs/installing-linux-under-proot.html#main_content .

* Shell tool to interact with the Android environment is also present.
- Content exchange between other applications and own files / pipes has been implemented.
- It also works in chrooted environments (PRoot at least).
- USB and Bluetooth serial port dongles access from the command line is also implemented.
- libusb support on nonrooted Android with hot plug/unplug events, see https://green-green-avk.github.io/AnotherTerm-docs/installing-libusb-for-nonrooted-android.html#main_content .
- Custom plugins to access the Android environment and own API to create them as separate APKs.

* Telnet (no encryption).

* Supported SSH features: zlib compression, port forwarding, password and public key authentication.

* No MoSH, sorry.

* Terminal screen columns and/or rows number can be set fixed.

* Builtin screen keyboard and mouse.

* Hardware buttons mapping.

* Different charsets and customizable key mapping support.

* The application packed into single universal APK for all architectures that makes it possible to be installed on additional devices even being offline.

# 3rd party components

* USB UART: https://github.com/felHR85/UsbSerial
* SSH: modified https://github.com/mwiede/jsch
* Console font: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/dejavu-sans-mono

See full list in the Wiki.

Wiki: https://green-green-avk.github.io/AnotherTerm-docs/

Source code: https://github.com/green-green-avk/AnotherTerm

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Pros

Best application for shell terminal with Android native serial/uart support.
App is handy and useful for certain tasks.
Allows access to telnet BBSs with ANSI graphics.

Cons

Hard to follow instructions for new users.
Crashes immediately upon opening a terminal for some users.
Lacks sufficient guidance or help tools.

Most mentioned

Need for better tutorials or help documentation.
Difficulty in usability for the average user.
Requests for features like a built-in keyboard.

User reviews

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Joseph Price, 2024-08-07

I really like this, haven't used it much, but if there's one thing I can request, it'd be the built-in keyboard as a separate app so I can use it elsewhere too, it's really handy.