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Are you sick of all those colorful and chaotic launchers?
Did Icons, App Drawer and Dock bother you enough?
Do you miss those times when you could do whatever you wanted with a simple command and the enter key?
Then, T-UI Launcher and its Linux-like CLI (Command Line Interface) are a must for your Device.
T-UI's features:
• T-UI commands (like uninstall, open, sms, ..)
• Native Android/Linux commands
• aliases, use your favourites commands faster
• suggestions, to help you compose your commands
• tuixt, in-app text editor
• widely customizable launcher
• CLI music playe
• full Linux-like CLI interface
Some T-UI commands:
• uninstall [app]
• sms [contact] [text]
• call [contact]
• calc [expression]
• search [google, playstore, youtube, files]
• wifi
• flash
• share [file]
• mv / cp [file] [dest]
+ many other Linux commands
Thanks to Luke Winward for his original idea and for the beta testing. Without Luke this Linux CLI Launcher wouldn't be as it is.
Feel free to e-mail me for problems or suggestion.
If you like my work leave a positive rate, or offer me a coffee: PayPal
TIP: don't install this if you don't like having a CLI as your home Launcher, if you hate Linux or those two things together
Did Icons, App Drawer and Dock bother you enough?
Do you miss those times when you could do whatever you wanted with a simple command and the enter key?
Then, T-UI Launcher and its Linux-like CLI (Command Line Interface) are a must for your Device.
T-UI's features:
• T-UI commands (like uninstall, open, sms, ..)
• Native Android/Linux commands
• aliases, use your favourites commands faster
• suggestions, to help you compose your commands
• tuixt, in-app text editor
• widely customizable launcher
• CLI music playe
• full Linux-like CLI interface
Some T-UI commands:
• uninstall [app]
• sms [contact] [text]
• call [contact]
• calc [expression]
• search [google, playstore, youtube, files]
• wifi
• flash
• share [file]
• mv / cp [file] [dest]
+ many other Linux commands
Thanks to Luke Winward for his original idea and for the beta testing. Without Luke this Linux CLI Launcher wouldn't be as it is.
Feel free to e-mail me for problems or suggestion.
If you like my work leave a positive rate, or offer me a coffee: PayPal
TIP: don't install this if you don't like having a CLI as your home Launcher, if you hate Linux or those two things together
My review
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4.7
4,404 total
5 3,464
4 662
3 146
2 51
1 81
Zyx Rhythm
Good. BUT Shell Commands does not work very well. Well it is suppose to be a launcher from the start; I understand that. The old versions are better; this is becoming more and more of "just another launcher" and getting less of a CLI/terminal. But hope 1 day this can actually work like a linux terminal. Not the same as the one on PCs but rather, at least, utilise what is there in android.
Suman Kalyan Biswas
Awesome launcher I ever seen. I'm using android till 6 years, but this is my first review on PlayStore. Cause your app is awesome. I have no words to say. Just keep it up. "One problem I face is when I change the full screen setting true then suggestions are hiding behind the keyboard during typing, please fix this issue". Otherwise awesome.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I just installed and it's definitely a five star app, beautiful work! I wish I could use your app as my full time terminal emulator and do away with the Android terminal emulator, that would be amazing!!! So far the only hiccup I've found is if you have "shellcommands" entered in the prompt and a space after it any key you hit causes instant force close. No big deal just a heads up.
Saravanan Murugeson
This is an excellent app. I use it with google keyboard (with glide input) and I can feel that I am faster with my phone, be it launching apps, calling, or doing simple arithmetic. I really like this app. I come from flow home launcher and there are a few thing I do miss in this launcher, 1. notifications on screen. (with some interactions) 2. twitter feed If these two things are integrated into this app, I will forever be fixed on this launcher as my daily driver. Good work devs, I hope my suggestions are incorporated.
Jeff Werner
Light weight and surprisingly quick. I have loved Zlauncher when it is working, but it's buggy and heavy. This launcher, in comparison, is light and simple, and the smart autocomplete menu makes it quick to use. I was worried there'd be a bunch of non-linux junk I'd have to memorize, but no! Pretty simple. I love using it with the Google Handwriting Input keyboard. Just start writing what you want to do in chickenskratch and one or two letters in it should be on the screen.
Jeff Martinez
I have been using this as my primary launcher for a couple months, and I love it. It is simple and fast. One feature I would like to see added would be the ability to change the font size. (I know it makes me sound really old, but my eyes just don't see smaller fonts as well as they used to)
User reviews
Good. BUT Shell Commands does not work very well. Well it is suppose to be a launcher from the start; I understand that. The old versions are better; this is becoming more and more of "just another launcher" and getting less of a CLI/terminal. But hope 1 day this can actually work like a linux terminal. Not the same as the one on PCs but rather, at least, utilise what is there in android.
Awesome launcher I ever seen. I'm using android till 6 years, but this is my first review on PlayStore. Cause your app is awesome. I have no words to say. Just keep it up. "One problem I face is when I change the full screen setting true then suggestions are hiding behind the keyboard during typing, please fix this issue". Otherwise awesome.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I just installed and it's definitely a five star app, beautiful work! I wish I could use your app as my full time terminal emulator and do away with the Android terminal emulator, that would be amazing!!! So far the only hiccup I've found is if you have "shellcommands" entered in the prompt and a space after it any key you hit causes instant force close. No big deal just a heads up.
This is an excellent app. I use it with google keyboard (with glide input) and I can feel that I am faster with my phone, be it launching apps, calling, or doing simple arithmetic. I really like this app. I come from flow home launcher and there are a few thing I do miss in this launcher, 1. notifications on screen. (with some interactions) 2. twitter feed If these two things are integrated into this app, I will forever be fixed on this launcher as my daily driver. Good work devs, I hope my suggestions are incorporated.
Light weight and surprisingly quick. I have loved Zlauncher when it is working, but it's buggy and heavy. This launcher, in comparison, is light and simple, and the smart autocomplete menu makes it quick to use. I was worried there'd be a bunch of non-linux junk I'd have to memorize, but no! Pretty simple. I love using it with the Google Handwriting Input keyboard. Just start writing what you want to do in chickenskratch and one or two letters in it should be on the screen.
I have been using this as my primary launcher for a couple months, and I love it. It is simple and fast. One feature I would like to see added would be the ability to change the font size. (I know it makes me sound really old, but my eyes just don't see smaller fonts as well as they used to)
The coolest app I've ever use 😎 love it Total launcher customize the UI greatly, t-ui just hide the UI, makes the phone easier to use. I don't have to consider how to match the icon style with my background, or how I should set up my folder style. Only problem is that it does but fully support Chinese. The Chinese names are listed separately, it'll be better if I can just search by Pinyin, so I don't have to switch language searching for apps; this problem may exist for Japanese, Korean or any other languages that do not use Latin letters and I know it's hardly possible to support all languages, maybe language packs will solve the problem?
I've used many terminal emulators and other kind of apps to make my phone more close to a Linux machine we are used to. But all attempts failed due to the difficulty to type in this keyboard. This app though! I was curious if a cli launcher will be something I'll be able to keep using without getting frustrated. But oh boy, this is amazing. So neat. So fast. So customizable. Keep up the good work!
Installed for a laugh and was kinda blown away. I love this launcher. I wish the aliases were a little more useful. You can't do "gs=search -g" for instance.. aliases don't show up in autocomplete, either. Also, doesn't seem to respect default phone numbers. I'm hoping for some updates but I'm still very impressed.
Fast, powerful alias system, solid auto complete... I love it! I would like to see some sort of hybrid approach, like the ability to launch the camera without the keyboard. It does make my phone mostly unusable for my friends and family 😋
One of the best launchers that I've ever used. Highly customisable, very fast, good predictive suggestions, light weight. Another thing that I realised after starting to use the launcher was that I'm no longer mindlessly opening apps like Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp just because i see the icons on homescreen. I now need to mindfully type the app name (first few chars) to get there thus making it very effective. The search function and alias naming is amazing. Just one suggestion/question: is it possible to have the suggestion bar at the bottom empty till the time i start typing some function or app name?
The app store wasn't designed to review this app. Still I think it's great. Can you give us the option to disable the history at the bottom? Other than that I can't think of any other changes. As of this rating I've only been using it for a day or so. 🔥😎
This launcher is very geeky. And I loved it. But sometimes I had to change its setting by opening setting.txt (not by typing 'tuisetting') in order to successfully save changes. Xiaomi MI 4i with Android 5.0.2 user.
love it only problem I have is the music. When I type in a song I want to listen to it sometimes plays a different song than what I typed in. Also when another song starts or when I use the "next" or "previous" command, the title is different to the song that is actually playing. Another thing is when I stop the music, whenever I play a video the music starts playing again.
It's so much faster and responsive, it doesn't even show up when I look at what's using my battery. I use fish for my default shell on Linux, and while they are not similar, I feel at home on all my devices now
Nice work Need some more work on this. Add quick access command like selfie and the main thing you need to work on is, wen we select call command by default it calling the first number only. Make changes her like "call contact name enter" it should show 1. xxxxxxxx 2. xxxxxxxx Same thing for sms Thank you.
This launcher is awesome! I've played with it for a bit and haven't used it for all its capable of, but still greatness. I do wish there was an option to disable the history at the bottom. Other then that minor detail ☆☆☆☆☆ for sure
Think SwiftKey swiping doesn't work with it. No notifications sometimes. Would be cool if notifications came out in the command line. But still like it, deleted nova, aviate and arrow launcher already. Get some funding man.
Wow! I installed without expecting much, or that it would be a keeper, but I love it! So far I think it's better than a touch launcher as I don't have to hunt through icons for an app. One thing I'd like to see is argument auto complete not clearing the preceding command, e.g. if I type (or auto complete) help and start typing an argument e.g. 'ap' (for 'apps') then when I auto complete 'apps' I don't want it to clear the help command - 'help ap' currently becomes 'apps' after auto complete.
I love this launcher, it's very clean and fast after setting up aliases. The only thing I'm missing is call logs, maybe adding an -history argument to the call function would be a solution.
I have to say this is quite a good launcher. If you know fully well what you want to do when you pull your phone out of your pocket this little thing works wonders. I love it and wish i thought of it first. Good job Francesco, stellar app.
Really great launcher. I wish it would take the entire screen, but if you set the value for fullscreen to true it doesnt hide the navbar and the suggestion bar kinda geta bugged and goes under the keyboard. Overall an awesone launcher
This is the type of launcher u have been searching for the past six months. Now i've found it. The best launcher. Very intuitive. Sometimes the keyboard stop walking using this launcher. So I have to restart again. Please fix this problem. Please add the option to open dial pad directly. It's very problematic to call a new number. Thanks
If you're missing command-lines from your Android, this program does well. Type 'help shellcommands' to see a surprising number of useful programs, including a C compiler! I was pleasantly surprised when it told me about automatic upgrades to programs. It is still somewhat buggy; it crashed on me, but it is a very useful program for hardcore Unix lovers.
Very cool! It without be nice if you could hide the frequently used apps but I don't see anything for that in the config file. Autocomplete also won't let you string many words together like typing h, choosing help, then typing c and choosing call will delete help and replace it with call, when I'm expecting it will put call after help so I can execute help call... Otherwise pretty fun!
Cool app. Fast, works well. Apps occasionally open a new activity every time, instead of simply opening the app like a normal launcher. This means I have multiple instances of apps on top of each other. Other than that, it's great.
The launcher is very good, is lightweight and fast. One suggestion I want to share with the developer is that the response of the command or the app which is launched displays the full package name. I suggest that an option should be provided in the settings to turn it off. Keep up the hard work cheers.
Downloaded this app a while ago but was a bit buggy.. Downloaded it again a couple of days ago and I'm loving it.. Easy to use with fast commands so it takes me less time to do things. Thanks to the developer.
Amazing launcher for tech enthusiasts. I feel so cool entering commands for trivial things like opening an app. Sending a text to my mom makes me feel like I'm hacking into the Pentagon it's so thrilling. You'd think having to type everything out would slow you down but it's actually quicker because there's no animations and everything is in one place.
I have been using this for about two weeks now, I have set few useful commands, and shortcuts, saves a hell of a time. Some snag here and there, but again, coming from a 17 y.o developer, I cannot expect more. :) Keep up the good work!!
This app is perfect but... I have one minor problem.. the dialer.. in my phone I can't dial any number or add it to contacts... I know I shall dial directly using the command "call" but when dialing USSD code it really sucks... I hope we can dial and add contacts directly with commands... thank you
I love it. A friend was trying to use my phone and couldn't do it. She kept hitting the home button and had this "oh no. Did I break his phone" look in her eyes
While I like this app, the one problem I have with it is I don't see a way to launch the email client within Mobile Iron app that I use in my official device. This is a very important functionality for my day to day use
It's a joy to use. Has many helpful features and it quite powerful. Not all of the Linux commands work as expected, but I might just be using them wrong. All in all, it's a wonderful launcher.
i have problem with apps having same name because i can open only one app. please add support for two apps having same name. otherwise great launcher i would use it if it doesn't have that problem. :D
Francesco Andreuzzi April 26, 2017
which apps give you this problem? Installed it as a joke at first but now I have one key shortcuts for apps and calling people. Much faster and lighter than alternatives and legitimately quite happy thus far
The idea itself is worthy of 5 stars. The implementation in fantastic. I love that they didn't just stick a plain old terminal onto your home screen; They built lots of custom commands that are specialized to make using your phone easier. But there's regular shell support as well, which is awesome. A++ The only thing I'd wish for is a tmux/byobu-like screen-in-screen sort of thing so I could put some things like time, date, battery, etc into, say, the top right corner of the home screen but still be able to run commands in the main console. A package manager solution where we could install terminal apps would be cool, too, but that's probably asking for too much.
My favorite launcher ever. Incredibly simple yet unique. It's not like most launcher and it actually helps keep idiots from snooping around on my phone haha. 10/10 My only gripe is that you can't remove the permanent notification that says that it's running.
I like the app. Only small things it luck s please make it look more like operating system. Give it all access
This is simple and useful with all the file management I do. As stated before by somebody else, though, with the fullscreen option enabled, the suggestions are indeed covered up by the keyboard
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What's New
<b>Changelog</b> 5.2.1
- bugfix
- you can now use hw keyboard without problems (hopefully)
Additional information
Updated
March 11, 2017
Installs
100,000 - 500,000
Current Version
5.2.1
Requires Android
2.2 and up
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Francesco Andreuzzi
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