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The project was just converted from Eclipse to Android Studio, so
there may be some glitches.
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Termux API
==========
This is an app exposing Android API to command line usage and scripts or programs.
The termux-api client helper binary
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The client helper binary ([termux-api.c](https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/blob/master/packages/termux-api/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:
- [The termux-api package](https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/packages/termux-api)