This is an app exposing Android API to command line usage and scripts or programs.
When developing or packaging, note that this app needs to be signed with the same key as the main Termux app for permissions to work (only the main Termux app are allowed to call the API methods in this app).
Termux:API application can be obtained from:
Additionally we offer development builds for those who want to try out latest features ready to be included in future versions. Such build can be obtained directly from Cirrus CI artifacts.
Signature keys of all offered builds are different. Before you switch the installation source, you will have to uninstall the Termux application and all currently installed plugins.
Released under the GPLv3 license.
The termux-api
client binary in the termux-api
package generates two linux anonymous namespace
sockets, and passes their address to the TermuxApiReceiver broadcast receiver
as in:
/system/bin/am broadcast ${BROADCAST_RECEIVER} --es socket_input ${INPUT_SOCKET} --es socket_output ${OUTPUT_SOCKET}
The two sockets are used to forward stdin from termux-api
to the relevant API
class and output from the API class to the stdout of termux-api
.
Client scripts which processes command line arguments before calling the
termux-api
helper binary are available in the termux-api package.
- Wifi network search and connect.
- Add extra permissions to the app to (un)install apps, stop processes etc.