Comment by simlevesque
9 hours ago
Enable Developper Options. It should be in the Developer menu. It's a toggle that'll enable this apk.
9 hours ago
Enable Developper Options. It should be in the Developer menu. It's a toggle that'll enable this apk.
Is this available outside of Pixels? I still can't find it on my OnePlus 13 running Android 16 with Jan security updates
The option exists on Samsung phones but is greyed out and crashes if you force it via adb. It is also marked as experimental.
I believe it relies on some virtualization extensions Google's CPUs have, which most phone SoCs don't support.
It is buggy as hell anyway.
Honestly I don't find it more useful than Termux, especially for being so much heavier.
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.)
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.
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> 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).