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Termux Developer's Wiki

General information about using Termux build environment, porting packages and maintaining APT repository.

User's Wiki is available at https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page.

Git repositories

All source code that belongs to Termux is split between repositories available under our organisation on Github: https://github.com/termux.

We maintain a mirror of our projects on Gitlab.

Support of Android OS versions 5.x - 6.x is discontinued as of 01.01.2020!

Application and add-ons

All apks are being distributed through Google Play, F-Droid and Kali Nethunter Store.

Builds on F-Droid and Kali Nethunter Store are done on their own and signed with different certificates. Thus, application and add-ons obtained from different source can't be mixed.

• termux-app: terminal emulator application sources.
• termux-api: Termux:API add-on sources.
• termux-boot: Termux:Boot add-on sources.
• termux-failsafe:
• termux-float: Termux:Float add-on sources.
• termux-styling: Termux:Styling add-on sources.
• termux-tasker: Termux:Tasker add-on sources.
• termux-x11: Termux:X11 add-on sources. Unmaintained.

Packages

Package definitions, build scripts and patches are split between multiple repositories depending on their functionality.

• termux-packages: main set of packages and build environment.
• game-packages: set of games.
• science-packages: set of scientific packages.
• termux-root-packages: set of packages requiring device to be rooted.
• x11-packages: set of packages for X Window System.

Package-specific repositories

We maintain some projects which are used for special purposes.

Packages:

• TermuxAm: an activity manager for Android OS.
• command-not-found: utility to suggest packages if executed command not found.
• libandroid-shmem: System V shared memory implementation through Android's ashmem.
• libandroid-support: implementation of functionality missing in Bionic libc.
• play-audio: utility to play audio files through OpenSLES.
• proot: an Android-compatible fork of proot.
• termux-api-package: command line interface to Termux:API.
• termux-apt-repo: script for generating APT repository from given packages.
• termux-auth: an implementation of password authentication for use with OpenSSH and similar packages.
• termux-create-package: utility to create DEB package from set of files and metadata definition.
• termux-elf-cleaner: utility to remove unused sections from ELF binaries.
• termux-exec: LD_PRELOAD hook for fixing /bin and /sbin path accesses during execution of execve() system call.
• termux-services: scripts for managing services in Termux.

Other:

• termux.github.io: Termux home page website.
• termux-packaging: utilities to work with packages and generate bootstrap archives.

External Resources Links

• Android changes for NDK developers
• Linux From Scratch
• Beyond Linux From Scratch
• OpenWrt as an embedded Linx distribution contains patches and build scripts
• Kivy recipes contains recipes for building packages for Android.