I am back in business. Gnuroot has been broken for a ling time, so my non-rooted phone has been Linux-less. No headless Linux console for me. But every now and then I look around to see what new offerings there are out there. I just found UserlAnd.
Once more I have a Linux console, with apt capability. I've installed the JDK/JRE and can run my Java notes app I built. That means I can also run my IntFiction engine also! It feels so good to have nix back.
Sadly UserlAnd is not quite as good as Gnuroot. Gnuroot was as painless as possible on a phone. The only pain points were keyboard related. It really needed a full keyboard with easily accessible arrow keys and key combinations. A readily available tab key would be nice. Although keyboards like the hacker keyboard can have these buttons right there all the time, the layout that allows for that is just unusable on a phone. The keys are way too small. UserlAnd, however, has a much more serious issue - scrolling. At least on my Pixel2 when the console output gets to the bottom of the screen it gets hidden behind the keyboard. So the bottom of the screen is useless. I have to close the keyboard, see what I typed, then pop the keyboard up and type some more. True, I can clear the screen, but sometimes that isn't possible. How could one even use VIM?
If the scrolling gets resolved UserlAnd would be a very strong offering.
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