termux-gui VS termux-app

Compare termux-gui vs termux-app and see what are their differences.

termux-gui

A plugin for Termux to use native Android GUI components from CLI applications. (by termux)

termux-app

Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages. (by termux)
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termux-gui termux-app
26 479
589 30,652
6.6% 5.1%
6.0 6.2
about 21 hours ago 8 days ago
Kotlin Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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termux-gui

Posts with mentions or reviews of termux-gui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.
  • New Termux:GUI Language Bindings
    5 projects | /r/termux | 5 Jul 2023
    Termux:GUI already has bindings for:
  • Is there a way to make Termux:GUI faster?
    3 projects | /r/termux | 26 Jun 2023
    Termux:GUI is a fantastic extension. I suggest everyone to install it (together with its set of sample apps) and try to make some simple scripts that involve native android GUI elements.
  • No more crashing! I didn't show that it continues playing with VNC viewer minimized.
    3 projects | /r/termux | 25 May 2023
    This is actually on my to do list, this too https://github.com/termux/termux-gui
  • Termux:GUI 0.1.6 is here, with support for hardware rendering
    5 projects | /r/termux | 29 Apr 2023
    Yes, I use the same debug key to be compatible with Termux GitHub releases. If you don't trust the binary I build, you can download the one from the GitHub Actions build of the release commit. It's build by GitHub with this build script. The Termux GitHub Actions builds are build in the same way.
  • Check if display is on or off
    1 project | /r/termux | 8 Mar 2023
    I think you can use my Termux:GUI plugin for that. At least you can get events when the display is turned on or off. And you can check if the device is locked, which should always be the case when the display is off. Though directly checking the display status is also not possible, but maybe it's enough for your use case.
  • Have you used Termux:GUI?
    3 projects | /r/termux | 24 Jan 2023
    I'm the developer of the Termux:GUI plugin. Although it's only available on GitHub for now due to problems with f-droid, I wanted to see if the community already uses it, and what could be improved: - Is the performance good enough? - Do you want better support for custom homescreen widgets? - If you use it with Python, is the documentation and the tutorial understandable? Even with no knowledge of how the Android GUI works? - If you use your own implementation, is the protocol definition understandable and specific enough? - Would you like to see bindings in more languages than Python, Bash, C/C++ and Rust? - Do you need any other Android Views not implemented already?
  • "TermuxGUI" A guided GUI setup for termux
    2 projects | /r/termux | 15 Jan 2023
    Not to be confused with "Termux:GUI" lol, a logical name for anything GUI related I guess.
  • Using termux to create apps?
    2 projects | /r/termux | 18 Dec 2022
    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.
  • Termux plugin to use native Android GUI components from CLI
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2022
  • browsing this sub with my Termux reddit client
    3 projects | /r/termux | 25 Sep 2022
    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.

termux-app

Posts with mentions or reviews of termux-app. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing termux-gui and termux-app you can also consider the following projects:

termux-gui-package - A Termux package containing utilities for Termux:GUI.

proot-distro - An utility for managing installations of the Linux distributions in Termux.

termux-gui-python-bindings - A Python library to interact with the Termux:GUI plugin

termux-wayland - Not released and unmaintained Termux X11 add-on application.

dialog-apt - A Command Line Interface for APT! Powered by Dialog from Bash, only for Termux Android for now.

UserLAnd - Main UserLAnd Repository

proot-distro-tui - A TUI for Termux's Proot-Distro

termux-api - Termux add-on app which exposes device functionality as API to command line programs.

termux-x11 - Not released and unmaintained Termux X11 add-on application.

pk2 - Pekka Kana 2, a platformer game

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.