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

If you need a shell terminal with the android native serial/uart support this is the best application that you can find in the play store.

For someone that likes getting on telnet BBSs with ANSI graphics this worked great. Just remember that control h is a] good delete option as the regular delete did not work with my f(x)tec pro 1 keyboard for some reason.

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

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.

MkIIIv83:
✓ Some possible crashes have been fixed.

MkIIIv82:
✓ Targeting Android 13.

MkIIIv81:
✓ Android 13 libusb support crash has been fixed.

MkIIIv80:
✓ A rare crash has been fixed.

MkIIIv79:
✓ Minor fixes.

MkIIIv78:
✓ Minor corrections.