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If you get an Android you can use termux and do literally anything. I like to write websites, write newsletters in vim and run a jekyll instance, transcode vide
by tnelsond4 4mo ago
If you get an Android you can use termux and do literally anything. I like to write websites, write newsletters in vim and run a jekyll instance, transcode video with ffmpeg, etc.
- 1313ed01 4mo agoTermux and DOSBox are great for running or writing software on a phone. I almost never resort to installing or writing apps anymore as that is just more cumbersome and has APIs that keep breaking (not to mention the threats from Google about making non-Play app deployment more regulated).
- card_zero 4mo agoTermux for iOs might also be available, cursory searching suggests.
- alamortsubite 4mo agoTermux on Android is truly phenomenal in its capabilities. Unfortunately, nothing even close to it exists on iOS. Termux from the App store is completely unrelated, and essentially a scam.
- drbscl 4mo agoThe iOS one is pretty much just an SSH client (and also seems like a different developer piggybacking off the name)
- djfergus 4mo agoish and a-Shell both give you a terminal and some sort of semblance of a Unix vm with package management. Both good but nowhere near the termux ecosystem and integration
- tnelsond4 4mo agoiOS doesn't allow for native code execution (or JIT compilers) in apps like Android does (they don't like anything that could be used for sideloading) so the termux equivalents are ridiculously slow. I tried using ffmpeg on someone's ipad one time and it went so slow (about 100 times slower) that I ended up launching a web server, downloading the file to my phone and running ffmpeg there and then transferring it back.
- MarceliusK 4mo agoI think the remaining friction is mostly ergonomics and integration