Another Term

Aleksandr Kiselev

About this app

# 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

Ratings and reviews

Really hard to use. Sometime more is less. This is one of those times. It has some good things that 94% of the population is never going to use even if they know how. The other 6% are nerds. And (with the exception of me) are very annoying and should be avoided at all cost. Woe, I think I know why I have no friends?

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.

Crashes immediately upon trying to open a terminal. Note to the dev: Permission denied trying to execve (maybe newer versions of Android forbid it). Changed rating to 3 stars because it's probably an accident

What’s new

MkIIIv87:
✓ Customizable bind address to the SSH port forwarding feature.
✓ Minor corrections.

MkIIIv86:
✓ A dedicated directory content provider for the local terminal is fixed and available on Android 13.
✓ Minor fixes.
Other fixes/enhancements including CH9143 support are on the way...

MkIIIv85:
✓ Better non-monospace fonts support.
✓ Minor fixes.

MkIIIv84:
✓ RTL support.
✓ Terminal text selection fix.
✓ A dedicated directory content provider for the local terminal.
✓ `termsh pick` UI fix.