arcore-patch VS termux-packages

git clone https://github.com/thestr4ng3r/arcore-patch

Background: I've never been especially tech savvy, but a couple months ago took a sudden interest in this kinda thing. I've been learning more from trial and error than study, the hands-on approach, so have very little knowledge of things like terminology and proper method even in regards to the things I can reliably do. This tends to result in situations where I have all the pieces to the puzzle but can't quite see how they fit, or look up the answer. I think I'm in one now and, having recently reinstalled Reddit, would rather ask for help than beat my head against a wall for a few hours. I'm trying to install a patch for an .apk (Found here: https://github.com/thestr4ng3r/arcore-patch). that calls for use of adb, as well as a handful of other things. Most of these I either have or can likely get on Termux. I'm just not entirely sure if this is a thing I can use Termux for, and if so how. Can I run Termux packages via what I think is called an adb shell, or run the shell via Termux? Looking it up I found a few things that would suggest so (Such as: https://technastic.com/adb-fastboot-android/?), but they're mostly in regards to doing so on another phone instead of your own, and don't really mention the wireless adb option; which is absolutely fucking great aside from the fact that it's almost always ignored by exaltly these kinda things that it would be awesome for. So, to recap: I have Termux, I have most of the things I need in the form of Termux packages, and I have apps that let me run an adb shell on myself via wifi. How exactly do I combine these things to accomplish the task at hand?

No, but yes.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/blob/master/packag...

I just installed the package called `racket` from Termux's upstream, and it seems that they're using racket-minimal for that. But of a gotcha, but at least it doesn't seem like there's a bug.

containers/podman > [Feature]: Android support:

> There are docker and containerd in termux-packages. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/root-p...

But Android 13+ supports rootless pKVM VMs, which podman-machine should be able to run containers in; but only APK-installed binaries are blessed with the necessary extended filesystem attributes to exec on Android 4.4+ with SELinux in enforcing mode.

- Android pKVM: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/architec... :

> qemu + pKVM + podman-machine: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717 :

> The protected kernel-based virtual machine (pKVM) is built upon the Linux KVM hypervisor, which has been extended with the ability to restrict access to the payloads running in guest virtual machines marked ‘protected’ at the time of creation.

> KVM/arm64 supports different execution modes depending on the availability of certain CPU features, namely, the Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) (ARMv8.1 and later).

- "Android 13 virtualization lets [Pixel >= 6] run Windows 11, Linux distributions" (2022)

Not from PlayStore, but apparently everyone has English reading comprehension problems and wants to write a comment anyway.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

usbredirect, USB drives/disks, Termux, termux-usb, QEMU, and Alpine Linux in action in April 2024 on an Android 11 phone that is not rooted --> Update-6, Update-7, Update-8, Update-9, Update-10 at https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635

"USB Network Redirection protocol description version 0.7 (19 May 2014)": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/usbredir/-/blob/main/do... (gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/usbredir/-/blob/main/docs/usb-redirection-protocol.md)

"How to use Spice "Open remote computing"" Hans de Goede "@ T-DOSE 2011, Eindhoven": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fC3GOTHOY (www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fC3GOTHOY)

Phone (not rooted) running Android 11 and Termux doing superuser/root operations on a USB flash drive connected to the phone, for example "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1" and "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/v1" --> Update-6 through Update-8 and "Connecting a USB device to QEMU using termux, termux-usb, usbredirect" at https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635 (see also Update-9, Update-10, Update-11).

Done on a phone that is not rooted running Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU --> "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1" and "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 v1" and "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/v1" and "mount /dev/mapper/v1 /root/1" where "/dev/sda1" is a partition on a USB flash drive ("dev/sda") plugged in the phone: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635 (github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635'cryptsetup)

Yes. Even without enabling root, you can install Termux[1] and have a full Linux cli environment with ssh.

> don't understand not more people want to access their DCIM folder via sshfs

I agree. I sync my camera folder with Syncthing[1], so as soon as I take a photo it is available on my laptop.

1: https://termux.dev/

As usual don't forget that Android/Linux isn't GNU/Linux,

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/an...