termux-api/README.md

Termux API

This is an app exposing Android API to command line usage and scripts or programs.

The termux-api client helper binary

The client helper binary (termux-api.c) generates two linux anonymous namespace sockets, and passes their address as in:

/system/bin/am broadcast ${SERVICE_CLASS} --es socket_input ${INPUT_SOCKET} --es socket_output ${OUTPUT_SOCKET}

where the sockets are used to transfer:

• input through stdin to the helper binary are forwarded to java code
• java code may output feedback which are forwarded to the stdout of the helper binary

Client scripts

Client scripts which processes command line arguments before calling the termux-api helper binary are available in the termux-api package.