Mobile development suite: How to use Termux + my setup

Konrad Iturbe
4 min readJan 28, 2018

Mobile phones seem to have become dumb and simplified computers used for single purpose tasks. But who says you cannot use your phone as a development machine? Sometimes you don’t have your desktop/laptop at your disposal and need to be productive, or you love desktop apps over phone apps (like me).

Here’s when Termux comes into place. Termux is a debian chroot for Android, grossly oversimplifying. It has its own package manager, utils and runs on ARM/ARM64 and X86/64. I’ve used this app to solve all sorts of tasks, from programming…

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