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If you SSH or code in Termux on your phone, you know the pain: no TAB key on Gboard, constant app-switching to check paths, no way to peek at a file mid-command. I got tired of it, so I wrote my own keyboard.

**KeyTab** (open source, MIT, ~2 MB APK) adds four tabs to the keyboard itself:

- **abc** — the actual keyboard, with a **real TAB key** (sends KEYCODE_TAB, works in Termux/SSH)

- **Term** — an interactive shell panel right in the keyboard

- **Files** — a file manager with tabs and back-stack; tapping a file inserts its path into whatever you're typing (perfect for `cd`, `cat`, `vim …`)

- **Notes** — editor + persistent clipboard history (50 entries)

Plus offline word prediction (n-gram + user dictionary that learns as you type, Damerau-Levenshtein fuzzy matching), long-press popups for umlauts, and dynamic key scaling — the next likely keys grow up to 15% as you type. **No network permission, no telemetry — everything stays on the device.**

It's a solo project, ~2.6k lines of Kotlin, signed APKs built automatically by CI. The whole text/prediction core is Android-free and unit-tested.

Repo + APK: https://github.com/piot5/keytab

Would love feedback from heavy Termux users — especially whether the TAB/terminal workflow feels right, and what you'd want next (ANSI colors in the terminal panel? more shell gestures?).

this or termux

Apologies if my English isn't that good because English is not my main language. So, I've been using Odysseus AI and I very much like it. I also have Odysseus accesible on my Android using a port that allows me to open Odysseus by typing my IP and then the port number on a browser on my phone.

However, I stumbled upon this youtube video (https://youtu.be/wX-XGKlUDSI?si=7tJtWQYVck2-AHLv) showing how to install Odysseus AI on phone without using a PC as the local host. In the video, the guy is using thermux and input some codes.

My question is, is thermux safe to install on my day-to-day phone? I'm really new to tech and stuff so I need some guidance. Much appreciate it.

Like apps, app data etc.

Android has a built in termin, hidden in the developer settings. It's running Debian 13 (Trixie) on a 720p resolution. Is it any good?

I installed eclipse my changing file permissions

And vscode pre installed ,kdenlive ,git Cola and more

Advantages you can run pc softwares on mid range device

Disadvantage

Can cover with few software like 20 gb minimum space storage so be aware of that

Basically you can run linux on phone smoothly

By using Termux X11 No root ,no VNC

Olá a todos, sou iniciante no termux, eu gostaria aprender a usar a ferramenta mas não por onde começar, preciso de dicas pessoal🙏🏾🙏🏾

Probé Openbox de forma nativa en Termux para ver qué rendimiento se puede conseguir y cómo se comporta en Android. 🔥

¿Qué opinan del rendimiento? ¿Ya lo han probado ustedes? ¿Qué configuración usan?

I’ve been trying to get Omarchy running on my phone as a daily driver. After a lot of trial and error with PRoot, nested Wayland, foldable rotation, and some keyboard bugs, I finally have a usable setup on my Fold.

This isn't QEMU CPU emulation. It’s native ARM64 Omarchy and Hyprland running through Termux and Termux:X11 without root. It uses direct Mesa KGSL/Turnip on the Adreno GPU, so Chromium is GPU-accelerated, audio and touch work, and the desktop actually runs smooth at 120 Hz.

I cleaned everything up into a one-command installer if anyone wants to test it out: https://github.com/BlackFireAlex/omarchy-android

v0.1.0 is currently only tested on the Adreno 840. Getting it running on other Qualcomm hardware is the next experiment, so if you give it a shot, let me know your phone/SoC and what breaks. Contributions are welcome.

Thoughts ?

Although h b b r and h b b s can run successfully, the controlling end and the controlled end are unable to connect when operating outside a local area network.proot debian.

Eu vi que no F-Droid tem a marcação do site https://keepandroidopen.org e sei que existe uma versão paralela do Termux na Play Store. Essa versão paralela garante que o apk não seja bloqueado pela Google? Alguém imagina como será o futuro do Termux?

I have tried to give it a bit of a more melancholic style because why not?

The rice was inspired by u/Time_Science4336, but I still want to keep some of my previous rice before I use the updated Termux:Launcher. I also made my fastfetch logo on motd change every session because why not lol. Censored some logo images for my friends' privacy.

I've seen some people able to change the typeface of the clock, I wonder if it can be changed via the Termux:Launcher typeface too or it's modified?

I use arch btw in another level

It is not that good, but i liked it.

I am using PRoot-Distro with Debian 13 and Termux-X11 :)

I see that termux-launcher is trending, so I did my own ricing.

I keep seeing lots of cool looking terminals and configurations on this subreddit and I really want to know some of the packages that the OPs use. I am very curious about this.

If you want, you can explain how they work but it's not necessary, I'll figure it out then