Termux

Fredrik Fornwall

About this app

NOTE: If you're having issues with installing or updating packages - see https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Package-Management

NOTE: Updates over Google Play is currently halted due to technical reasons. In the meantime, see https://github.com/termux/termux-app#installation for alternative installation sources.

Termux combines powerful terminal emulation with an extensive Linux package collection.

• Enjoy the bash and zsh shells.
• Manage files with nnn and edit them with nano, vim or emacs.
• Access servers over ssh.
• Develop in C with clang, make and gdb.
• Use the python console as a pocket calculator.
• Check out projects with git.
• Run text-based games with frotz.

At first start a small base system is downloaded - desired packages can then be installed using the apt package manager. Access the built-in help by long-pressing anywhere on the terminal and selecting the Help menu option to learn more.

Want to read the wiki?
https://wiki.termux.com

Want to ask questions, report bugs or give feedback?
https://termux.com/community

Want to join the Termux IRC chat?
#termux on freenode

Ratings and reviews

I have been using this app for a few years now and it's become an indispensable tool for me. I live in ssh for work and it lets me do almost anything I could do on my laptop from my phone. I have dozens of hosts in my ssh config file and a branch of my dotfiles repo just for my phone. I use it for everything: from shopping lists in vim, to re-encoding phone videos in h.265 with ffmpeg, to using python as a calculator, to accessing web interfaces behind a firewall with an ssh tunnel, to backing up my phone's storage via rsync. The package manager works well and repos are pretty extensive. People complaining about not being able to update or install packages probably just needed to update their mirrors list, same as other distros' package managers. The soft keyboard is actually quite usable if you read the documentation, but a bluetooth keyboard is a nice addition.

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.

Great app!! But it's apparently not working correctly on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A with 8'' screen I bought a few nights ago. Characters aren't appearing on the screen immediately after being pressed on the onscreen keyboard. But a sequence of characters appears after I press the spacebar. I looked online, and other people say they're having the same problem. When will this problem be fixed? I don't know if it's a problem with Termux, or the onscreen keyboard, or other part of the Samsung Galaxy, or some combination of those three, etc. But Termux seems to work fine on my larger Samsung Galaxy, and on my OnePlus 6t smart phone.

What's new

• Terminal emulation: fix handling of DECRQM sequence. Issue #1752.
• Fix crash when using RunCommandService and issue with foreground sessions. Pull request #1764.
• Update bootstrap archives.