What have you been doing on Termux lately? (sh.itjust.works)

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I have been having a ton of fun messing with this, hooking up a dock and a kb/mouse, so funny using my phone this way. More of a party trick than actually useful, for me anyway. if one didn't have laptops, i could see it being handy.

What have you guys been using termux for? The biggest value I saw from it was using ffmpeg on it, and ssh for fun. I can't really figure out what other uses I may want it for. Backups maybe?

I'm not rooted, so I can't do a lot on this crappy samsung, but it's fun to play around.

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I write scripts that I use at boot.

Or whenever.

Funny that some apps tell you root is needed to do some things.

A little persistent frustration and failure can produce desired results.

Eg. Shizuku can't start on boot without root.

Need to enable wireless debugging.

I wrote a horrific script that nmaps for ports in the wireless adb range.

Attempts to connect. If success, great. If fail. Do until yay!

Then it restarts adb in tcpip mode with a custom port of my choosing so,its available to other apps.

And another script to start shizuku using the shizuku script to run in terminal.

And I put those scripts in another script and put it in the .termux/boot folder

And ouila!

Shizuku starts at boot and other apps that rely on wadb can use it.

Oh, and it doesnt need a wireless connection.

I also ssh, proxy, nmap, scan, sftp, samba, etc.

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