Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

It's still being worked on, though.

Android 16’s Linux Terminal can now run graphical Linux apps such as Doom. This is thanks to improvements like hardware acceleration support and a display server. These upgrades aren’t live yet in the ...

Turn your Android phone into a powerful control panel for your Linux PC.

Enable the Linux terminal on any Android device, and you can create or practice your bash scripting on the go.

What just happened? For all the native apps and tools available on platforms like Chrome OS, sometimes you just need a good old Linux program to get things done, especially if you are a developer.

The Galaxy S26 Ultra could gain support for a full Linux Terminal through Samsung’s upcoming One UI 8.5 update based on Android 16. If enabled, it would give developers and power users the ability to ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

Google recently added an experimental Linux terminal app to Android that installs Debian in a virtual machine and lets you run command-line apps. But if you’re running the latest canary builds of ...

The key to this change is a new terminal app that uses the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF). With this app, users can run Linux commands on their Android device through a virtual machine (VM).