termux-packages VS revanced-builder

This fully reflects my own Android experience (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Paul+Lutus) -- writing Android apps is by no means a write-and-forget experience. As time goes by more of my apps are dropped from the platform from my unwillingness to drop everything and rewrite code for each new Android version.

My original intent was to put my free, open-source apps on the platform, much as I had done before Android existed. But no -- Android doesn't work that way.

My best-known Android app is SSHelper (https://arachnoid.com/android/SSHelper/), a Secure Shell server meant for file transfers. Still work perfectly, dropped some time ago.

TankCalc (https://arachnoid.com/android/TankCalcAndroid/), same story. It's a well-known multi-platform app tank farm managers use to profile storage tanks. Still works, dropped from the platform.

And not just mine. Many other free, first-rate Android apps -- Termux (https://termux.dev/) comes to mind -- have been driven off the platform by Google's onerous demands and commercial focus.

It's as though a wall is going up between people who like programming and people who like money.

If you don’t have Termux installed, download it from the official source. Once installed, open Termux and update it with the following command:

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...

Revanced Builder used to be a great web builder for ReVanced but now it's dead. I want to move my keystore to the official builder (or any other) so I don't have to uninstall my apps, but whenever I import revanced.keystore from Revanced Builder to the official Revanced app on Android, any patch will fail.

I saw that the windows builder has been discontinued, so is there no way for ARM7 users with no alternative phone to install? I've tried googling it but everything is several months out of date. Trying to use the old installer on a whim seemed to kick up a lot of errors and produce non working apk files.

You should be able to use Revancify on your armv7 device, or you can try the ReVanced Builder on PC. The builder can be buggy though. There's also the CLI on PC, but it's a bit difficult for beginners and I don't know of a good guide for it.

You've used this NodeJs Builder (https://github.com/reisxd/revanced-builder) right? If so how did you use it because for me the oauth client id patch gives me errors on it.

You can use revanced builder and select patches just like manager. It still need Zulu though. Link to Revanced Builder - https://github.com/reisxd/revanced-builder/releases. Download the windows version and run it. Just make sure to select these 4 patches - https://revanced.app/patches/com.reddit.frontpage.

You can try using revanced builder, the setup is quite a bit more complex but personally I've had better results with it

I tried Revanced builder based on this comment from my new Patron Saint, and it worked.

That said... Besides creating an issue for the devs in hopes they either fix or find the problem, i can't think of any other way to do it other than using the cli (or the unofficial, yet trustworthy builder)... And that's a bit less beginner-friendly...

Here's where I got it. It's where I've always gone to get the instructions for Termux. I just really prefer the termux version over the revanced manager.