# Termux

Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app that works without rooting or setup and provides packages through APT.

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## Android Development on Android: A Self-Contained Setup

DevFeed: [Android Development on Android: A Self-Contained Setup](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/android-development-on-android-a-self-contained-setup-38660.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://krossovochkin.com/posts/2026_04_26_android_development_on_android/>)

Published: 2026-04-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Vasya Drobushkov](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vasya-drobushkov.md>)

Topics: [Termux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/termux.md>), [android-development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-development.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-development.md>), [android-studio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-studio.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>)

### AI overview

A practical guide to setting up Android development directly on an Android phone with Termux. It covers installing the JDK, Android command-line tools, platform and build tools, Gradle, and a Termux-compatible aapt2 binary, then cloning and assembling a project and authenticating Gemini.

### Source excerpt

I use my phone on a daily basis for dozens of various things. This is truly my pocket computer that helps me with many different tasks. Since the first time I had an Android phone until nowadays, the flexibility of the platform has been very astonishing Recently, I've learned about Termux - it is a UNIX terminal running on the phone. Yes, just directly on a mobile phone you have access to git, ssh, curl, and other terminal commands. It is very powerful by itself to be able to connect to a remote server from a phone and do sth, but one thing came to my mind - whether it can be used to work on Android projects