I just ordered a Nexus 9 and will be using it to program. Has anyone tried to run Terminal IDE on Nexus 9 or any other devices using Android 5.0 Lollipop?
The "links" browser included with Terminal IDE ran fine on my Nexus 5 under KitKat, but it crashes with the PIE error mentioned under Lollipop. Other than that, Terminal IDE has performed flawlessly for me, for about a year now. Sorry--forgot to add: Terminal IDE under Lollipop is "stopped" if started with the Android keyboard, or Android keyboard option is toggled. It will resume running if the Terminal IDE keyboard option is toggled.
7175 recompiled all the Terminal IDE binaries statically, so they don't give the PIE error on Android 5+. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57292384&postcount=68 (dec 2014)
7175 recommends downloading the apk from the following dropbox, then unzipping (an apk is a zip) and copying across just the binaries you need (instead of sideloading the whole apk). https://www.dropbox.com/s/h2d23ecbrt2akeu/terminalide-2.02-binary-mod-signed.apk?dl=0
I downloaded this, and its vim worked on my old 4.2.2 Android phone - but I haven't actually tried it on an Android 5+ phone! (I don't have one; I'm researching my upgrade path).
At lease one stackoverflow user uses it: Rejecting re-init on previously failed class error when loading a Class with dalvikvm
A question within an answer: Anyone know how to confirm these binaries are safe? Especially ssh - downloading a "secure" shell binary from an anonymous user defeats the purpose!
The background of the post seems 100% legit, and has 467 "thanks" (wait, that's for all 7175's posts; this particular one only got 2 "thanks"...) - presumably people who downloaded it, and found no problem. But the site seems dodgey (http://forum.xda-developers.com), with lots of ads and security warnings. Maybe they are recent, after these older posts, and xda used to be good?
Terminal IDE appeals to people who don't want to root their phones - who probably don't want to sideload apps, or download anonymous binaries off the internet. I think the Play store does some rudimentary verification, and the more people who use it, the more likely problems are found. So it would be reassuring if spartacusrex could release this on the Play store as an upgrade - or, 7175 release a new fork.... or someone else release one. Forking is one of the strengths of open source!
BTW: I feel really bad doubting 7175's kind and great work, but sadly, security is a real issue. :(
Edit: It looks like it's not working on all new devices, maybe a target SDK version incompatibility? Terminal IDE should work at least on some other devices since it uses statically compiled binaries to run different parts of it. Statically compiled binaries are PIE(position independent executable) safe which is a requirement in lollipop. I've been running it on a lollipop build with my Galaxy Nexus no problem.
EDIT2: Also there are a few binaries that are dynamically linked and are not PIE, so those won't work.
No, but termux seems like a good Terminal IDE replacement for Lollipop - and under active development. Has vim, ssh, git, gcc etc and a version of apt-get.
[It only works in Android 5+, so I haven't tried it yet myself.]
You have lot of options now: * Termux * GnuRoot apps * UserLAnd * KBox
Of course, it should be possible to build a great filesystem yourself with fakechroot, fakeroot or proot. Or a non-root package manager.
I remember seeing a project named like 'Gentoo prefix for Android non-root' on Sourceforge. I don't know if it is still at alpha stage...
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26979701/is-the-terminal-ide-app-for-android-compatible-with-lollipop