Terminal IDE: full-featured terminal/shell/SDKs on Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spartacuside

by cgs1019 • 14 years ago

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dansul• 14 years ago

I think this was posted a while ago, it's also open source http://code.google.com/p/terminal-ide/

What I don't understand is how can someone code on this, even on a tablet.

czervik• 14 years ago

If you're using something like a transformer prime or any tablet with a keyboard I can see it being useful.

bitwize2• 14 years ago

Go to Market -- sorry, Play -- and get "Hacker Keyboard". It's free and offers a more sensible layout to your Android device's onscreen keyboard.

theBobMcCormick• 14 years ago

Actually, there's no need to. Terminal IDE already comes with it's own replacement keyboard.

kruhft• 14 years ago

It comes with telnetd and sshd so you can connect to it using a regular PC, if you feel like it. I also wonder, can you plug a USB keyboard into an android device and have it recognized (using a full size to mini USB adapter)?

mattwdelong• 14 years ago

I have an Asus Transformer and use this regularly, and it has suited me quite nicely on numerous occasions. If I go away for extended duration of time, I don't have to lug around a laptop with me.

Also note that I do a lot of my active development in VIM, so take that into consideration.

Cieplak2• 14 years ago

Very cool, but I can't pipe commands together because the shell doesn't recognize the pipe character on my phone (htc evo)

cgs1019• 14 years ago

Are you using the built-in Terminal IDE keyboard that comes with the app? You will probably need to enable it explicitly in the keyboard settings. It's big and a bit unwieldy, but one criticism that can't be levied against it is featurelessness..

Cieplak2• 14 years ago

Any ideas for setting up a package manager?

luv2code• 14 years ago

this looks pretty cool. use it to install python and/or ruby: http://botbrew.inportb.com/

dkhenry• 14 years ago

Terminal IDE is great and I use it frequently on my Prime, but it has no DNS name resolution built in. Also it is missing emacs. This has limited it to really just another place to SSH to a VPS.

*NOTE you can use jping to get the IP for a hostname. FWIW

ajross• 14 years ago

This kind of thing makes me sad. If Google had just built on top of the regular linux stack, even without X, they'd have all this for free. But instead Android is trapped with forked core libraries which track upstream poorly if at all; needless duplication (dumbed down rewrites of glibc, busybox, udevd); cave man software maintenance ("updates" by unzipping crap inside a boot loader).

It's a great app framework. But it's not even remotely close to being a self-hosted development environment, and probably never will be. Toys like this are just reminders about how much they threw out.

dave1010uk• 14 years ago

Both HP's webOS and Nokia's Maemo/Meego platforms were much more similar to a standard desktop Linux desktop. I wonder if Mozilla's Boot2Gecko, or even Samsung's Tizen will be good replacements.

cottonseed• 14 years ago

I've seen a native gcc build floating around. Is there a reason an app couldn't just build its own versions of the full libraries?

Terminal IDE: full-featured terminal/shell/SDKs on Android

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