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I Can't Write Code. But I Shipped a Native Android Terminal IDE with Claude Code + Codex Running Natively — No Termux Required.

DEV Community·RYO ITABASHI·about 1 month ago
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Update: v0.1.0 Released Since my last post, everything changed. The WebView terminal is gone. Termux is no longer required. Claude Code and Codex now run natively on Android — in the same process as your shell, with zero TCP, zero IPC. This is what shipped. The Problem I Kept Running Into Claude Code broke in Termux. Codex broke in Termux. Every update was a gamble. So I directed the AI to throw away the entire architecture and rebuild it from scratch. What Changed Before (Plan A): WebView terminal via ttyd Termux required TCP socket between terminal and app Died every time I switched apps After (Plan B): Native PTY via JNI forkpty — same process, zero IPC, zero TCP Termux not required bash, Node.js, Python 3, git, curl, ripgrep, jq, tmux, vim, sqlite3 bundled inside the APK as .so files Executed via /system/bin/linker64 to bypass SELinux's execve restrictions on app_data_file context As far as I know, this is the only React Native app in the world with an embedded native terminal emulator running in-process…

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