A terminal is a command line interface used to interact with computers. With MacOS, Linux and even sometimes windows, interacting with the terminal is a pretty common practice for developers. But, not so much with Android. Android (the OS), is primarily Linux based, so with few modifications, you can also use the terminal on your android device similar to the way you do on your Linux system. 1) Install termux from google playstore Termux is one of the most popular android terminals and has a good active community to help you if do run into some problems. install on your android device termux (if you have any questions regarding termux, refer to their before anything else) wiki 2) Enable Storage access open the termux app, and run the following command : termux-setup-storage 3)  Make sure termux is running try the following command : echo 'hello world' on pressing the enter key on your phone, should be printed on the line below hello world 4) Installing ubuntu-in-termux update termux packages (including -y so it doesn't ask for confirmation when installing) : apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y (termux, similar to a lot of linux distributions, also comes with the apt package manager for installation and management of softwares and libraries) Install wget pt-get install wget -y ( it is a software package that is used to get stuff from the internet, we will need this later) Install proot apt-get install proot -y ( we need this to use our current directory as the root system for ubuntu) Install git apt-get install git -y Go to the home folder cd ~ Download the files from this using git repo check if files are fetched properly ls (this should return a list of files in the current directory) Travel into the ubuntu-in-termux directory cd ubuntu- -termux in make the ubuntu.sh shell script executable chmod +x ubuntu.sh run the script ./ubuntu.sh start ubuntu ! ./startubuntu.sh how to exit exit :) So there you have it, a terminal for your android phone along with a bash shell with ubuntu environment. Use your new found power wisely !

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