Google just added a powerful new feature to Android: The Linux terminal. It's easier than you think to use and it unlocks a whole new level of control.
Not entirely sure how they’d go about banning it, the official location for it is F-Droid. The one on Google Play is like 500 years out of date.
My guess was that their overall goal was to take the market share and shut down Termux, then cancel their own terminal so they can make Android worse than they already have lol.
Weird that it’s so out of date, but if they wanted it gone from there they could say it was violating some security rule or other. I guess they could remove some necessary APIs if they actually want to break it.
Additional to burgersc12’s comment, I think the app has always been hosted in both locations, but the team has switched hands and the original app developer basically went MIA so the package on Google is stuck in limbo.
Seems like a lot of effort to remove one app which they could presumably just ban if they actually wanted to.
I wonder what their overall goal is. Maybe making Android viable as a development platform to one day claw some market share from macbooks?
Not entirely sure how they’d go about banning it, the official location for it is F-Droid. The one on Google Play is like 500 years out of date.
My guess was that their overall goal was to take the market share and shut down Termux, then cancel their own terminal so they can make Android worse than they already have lol.
Weird that it’s so out of date, but if they wanted it gone from there they could say it was violating some security rule or other. I guess they could remove some necessary APIs if they actually want to break it.
Additional to burgersc12’s comment, I think the app has always been hosted in both locations, but the team has switched hands and the original app developer basically went MIA so the package on Google is stuck in limbo.
The store version is functionally useless. It has been basically removed just without being completely wiped from the play store.