Making a custom distro Linux Terminal app (github)

NetRunner88

As I read your github lnk, we need to use adb to enable some stuff.
Any workaround for this ? ADB needs Developers Options to be enabled and can break stuff

0xC0DED0D0

NetRunner88 ADB needs Developers Options to be enabled and can break stuff

I follow this project with great interest, but recognize that it's an "early alpha" at most. Regardless of Developer options, there's a non-zero risk of koiterminal breaking things.

Hoping that once it's mature, it could be adapted for/by GrapheneOS with a custom system setting toggle or other more secure activation.

OutlawSanZhang

NetRunner88

0xC0DED0D0

koiTerminal can run with Developer options off. The ADB permission grant is one-time only, so you only need to be very careful during the brief period. You can turn off Developer options right after. However, AFAIK, the hidden API that koiTerminal needs for sure (Landroid/system/virtualmachine/VirtualMachine*) can only be blanket granted to all apps instead of just koiTerminal.

Unfortunately, even if this goes to stable, the ADB permission grant will still be needed, unless @GrapheneOS (or Google, whoever is faster) exposes the toggle for these custom VM permissions and API to the end user.

koiTerminal is probably near beta quality now. Once the graphical display is sorted out, this can be polished for onboarding experience and enter beta.

Johnnyloans

NetRunner88 ADB needs Developers Options to be enabled and can break stuff

There is a risk of using adb with a compromised computer and it's doing commands on the phone without you knowing.

If you know what the adb commands do like:
Give this app permission to toggle wifi on/off

do I want this? Yes.

Developer options can break things as in:
An app on my phone crashes with this error. I turned off dev options and now it works. There won't be irreparable harm from having dev options on for a few minutes or a day.

OutlawSanZhang

void0
Good news for you -- a very helpful @zhuowei on GitHub submitted a PR for building koiTerminal with Android Studio, and I merged it today (and set up the code base so it will be automatically compiled by GitHub Actions).

Now, you only need about 10GB storage (the repo is large, and there's gradle) to compile koiTerminal.

AcclaimSublevel19

Johnnyloans There is a risk of using adb with a compromised computer and it's doing commands on the phone without you knowing.

You could go the wireless debugging way and do it from your trusted GOS device via shizuku or something.

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