Termux packages for the Google Play build of Termux

This repository contains the packages used in the Termux build on Google Play.

It's currently mostly interesting if you are a developer looking into the changes necessary to make Termux compatible with the Google Play requirements.

Otherwise, please work on https://github.com/termux/termux-packages instead - this repository regularly merges in changes from there (but generic package changes are also welcome here, in which they case they will be merged to termux/termux-packages as well).

See https://github.com/termux-play-store for more information, status and updates regarding Termux on Google Play.

Quick guide to how to build a package

Most developers should use a prebuilt docker image to get a correctly configured and isolated build environment. Start with:

./scripts/run-docker.sh

Now build a package with:

./build-package.sh -i <package-name>

where <package-name> is a package name, corresponding to a directory packages/<package-name/ (so bash and vim are examples of package names).

Quick guide to how to develop and patch a package

There are mainly two parts to iterating on a package:

1. Edit the packages/<package-name/build.sh build script and run builds iteratively as above.
2. Update package patches and run builds iteratively as above.

Patches are applied from packages/<package-name/*.patch files.

Once there is an existing build, a built .deb file will be created in the output/ directory, as in output/bash_5.2.26-2_aarch64.deb. Transfer that to your device and install with dpkg -i output/bash_5.2.26-2_aarch64.deb.

Feel free to reach out with an issue or #termux-google-play on Matrix to discuss or get help!