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very cool. termux has to be peak for unbridled nerddom, the new linux terminal in android 16 is really a pale shadow of it. you don't get access to anything non-virtual, not even the gpu (atleast, i couldn't get it to work.)

theres so much cool hardware on modern smartphones, with quite solid drivers by virtue of the (relatively stringent) android quality requirements, and its all locked away. video encoders, decoders, 3d accelerators, etc, but none of it is really accessible in a power-user kind of way.

some more thoughts...

the android development kit really is very heavy. compared to `gcc -o main main.cpp && ./main`, it is several orders of magnitude away.

the jetpack stuff and whatnot - the big android app shops probably do actually appreciate that stuff. but i wish the dev env 'scaled to zero' as they say, but in the sense of cognitive overload.

could it be time to move away from java, and shift towards everything being a native binary? we have the tools now to make it secure, and its not like phones get faster 'for free' anymore. it would also vastly simplify the developer experience.

4 days agoby webdevver

I've been playing with Termux, both on Chromebook (Eve), and my Samsung Galaxy S22 - pretty cool, though hit some issue with recent `bazel` - as newer versions try to access a `/dev` endpoint that's not available.

Quick fix, was to add `~/.bazelrc` this:

    common --experimental_collect_system_network_usage=false

and then it works! Though sometimes I need to first `termux-chroot` and then it it handles cases, where some tooling expects `/usr/bin` and not `/mnt/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin`

On measurements it's a bit 2x, 3x slower than Crostini (Termina) on Chromebook, but being available (so far) on all my Android devices is just awesome!

And there exist X11 too!

I wish there would be backdoor for F-Droid in the future, though maybe not as it seems :(

4 days agoby malkia

If I telnet into an ESP32 via Termux, it doesn’t recognize \n. I haven’t found a solution yet. It works fine with other Linux consoles.

    void handleTelnet() {
      ...
      if (telnetClient && telnetClient.connected() && telnetClient.available()) {
        String cmd = telnetClient.readStringUntil('\n'); cmd.trim();
        if (cmd == "status") {
        ...

EDIT: Thanks @yjftsjthsd-h and @detaro for your suggestions! I tried Telnet via tmux - it worked. Then I tried telnet directly, and it suddenly worked too. Turns out Arduino’s Telnet implementation is single-user only, and my dev machine’s reconnect loop kept the connection open; the working login just fooled me.

4 days agoby wumms

Note also you can use webrepl, which exposes MicroPython's REPL as a web page. It's not a real replacement for termux, but it is still quite useful- I often deploy ESP32s running Micropython around my workspace but they aren't connected to any serial terminal.

4 days agoby dekhn

If you like this stuff, I highly recommend you look at Samsung Galaxy phones. They come with DeX, which is a linux DE that you can use with a dock.

4 days agoby ActorNightly

"Running PlatformIO: the xtensa-esp32-elf-g++ binary would not execute, as it is compiled for another architecture"

PlatformIO is providing C binaries that have dependencies.

Please PlatformIO ship your binaries statically so that we can run them everywhere.

I had the same problem on Alpine.

3 days agoby zoobab

I'm trying to repurpose my Pixel 6a that I no longer use, as a Home Assistant Core main driver. I was hoping the author will talk a little bit about that.