termux-gui-python-bindings VS termux-packages

Python

I just released a new version of the Python bindings for Termux:GUI which will solve the startup performance problems someone encountered in a recent post here. These are the same issues as for the slow start of Termux:API commands, and as such vary from device to device, but even if you don't fall under that issue, startup should be faster.

termux-gui-package has some more apps, and the Python tutorial has more examples with explanations. Or did you mean some other kind of examples?

I was wanting this back. https://github.com/tareksander/termux-gui-python-bindings

I made a Termux plugin to make GUIs using the Android GUI system, to get the look and feel of a native Android app. There is a Python library for it. Sadly the f-droid builds are broken right now, so you need to install Termux from GitHub to use it.

I have a tutorial for the python library if you want to check it out.

I had time to work on my Termux:GUI plugin again and tried making something bigger. With that I realized object-oriented programming is better suited for GUI and added an oop subpackage to the python bindings, along with some more features I found missing. At the end of the video is a teaser for the bash bindings I'm working on next. If someone wants the code for the reddit client I can clean it up a bit and release it.

I also made python bindings for the plugin with a tutorial and documentation.

If you do want to use it directly: If you are not an android developer, you should read the short introduction to the android GUI system. Currently there is a python library with documentation and a tutorial.

Feedback has been good. If you want to help, you could make bindings for your favourite programming language. I tried to document the protocol as best as I could, but if something isn't clear, you can look at the python bindings. You only need a few things for the protocol: - open a unix server socket in the abstract linux namespace and accept connections. - read a 4 byte big-endian integer. - handle JSON.

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...

With this, I was able to cross compile lone for x86_64 from within the Termux environment of my aarch64 smartphone. All I had to do was obtain the Linux user space API headers for x86_64.

I made a Termux package request for multiplatform Linux UAPI headers specifically so I could cross compile lone but unfortunately it was rejected.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/16069

I wonder how far you could get with the git client in termux. I got vim running at one point.

[1] https://termux.dev/

[2] https://packages.termux.dev/apt/termux-main/pool/main/g/git/

Crystal can be installed with just pkg install crystal. If you have Docker, you could also clone the build environment and try building Crystal locally with scripts/run-docker.sh scripts/build-package.sh -I -a aarch64 crystal.