 Today we're going to be continuing looking at applications that I use on my Android device and today We're looking at a black screen and a keyboard. That's right. It's the shell. I use now There are a few terminal applications out there for Android the one I use is more than just a terminal application It's term ux if you haven't heard about it check it out It's in both the Google Play Store and Fdroid and once you install it it not only gives you access a lot of the terminals out there you get for Android Access to the Android shell. This is different. It's actually a whole new environment And it has a package manager with a bunch of applications available in the repositories Now it's not quite a true, but it's pretty darn close now You don't need to root your phone for this but it gives you access to a lot of the tools You would have on a standard Linux system things like you know full version of Python It will give you like I use Axle to download stuff or I'm gonna talk more about other applications. I use an n-map Full busy box full bash session. I actually have Z shell installed on here with Tmux not term mux but Tmux for splitting the window and have multiple sessions going I have FM peg installed on here I'm gonna talk about later on but a lot of the core tools I use more than core tools a lot of tools I use are in the package manager in their repositories there and Now to explain this between this and a chair roots first of all chair root You're going to need to root your device You don't need to root your device to use term mux and you're still gonna have a lot of those applications now You'll still would need root if you want to do root stuff like accessing certain types of a hardware and stuff like that There's still gonna be restriction on that because Android just locks everything down that way Which is one of the in my opinion biggest drawbacks of Android, but But term mux just gives you 99% of what you're going to be doing Right there in package. So again a chair root. What a chair root is Basically, you'll have a Folder or a partition or an image that you have mounted that has a full Linux file system on it such as Debian for example and when you chair root into it Basically, you're telling the computer continue using the Linux kernel that we're currently using which is great because it has all your needed drivers loaded but For all the applications and everything we're going to do once we answer the chair root use this file system So everything but the kernel would be Debian and it's just like running Debian anywhere else Or whatever distribution using Term mux is a little different. I don't know the exact details on how it works But basically from my understanding when I read about it a while ago one of the things about difference between different Linux distributions is where files are stored and when you install an application. That's a binary application It is most likely dynamically linked. So it's going to look for libraries in certain folders. Well Term mux has variable set for different things So basically it's a very much like a chair root where it has its own folder where it stores all its stuff But instead of saying this is the root directory for everything just use the kernel It's just saying okay, we're gonna load up our shell We're gonna set these variables to look for certain things in certain places So it's very much like a chair root in that way, but you still have access. You're still in the The the Android operating system and can still access things that way once you get permission Which we'll talk about more once we get into the next video where I talk more about this But you're actually able to access and interact with Android with it as well, which is awesome if you want to be able to trade off your clipboard information Open Android applications Navigate to websites in your web browser all using shell scripts. You can do all that with term mux So check it out term mux. You can get it in the Android that the Google Play Store or as we talked in the last video in f droid Either or make sure you remember which way install it because it does make a difference Once we get a little more into what we're going to be doing in the next video So be sure to come back check that out as always visit films by Chris comm that's Chris the K There's a link in the description, and I hope that you have a great day