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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·6 months 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…

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