Android Termux

Default package manager is pkg

But it doesn't work for 99% of stuff, so expect to compile and git clone stuff yourself. Also, superuser is broken unless you have rooted your phone.

SSH server

SSH = Secure Shell (encrypted connection to another computers commandline)

Official docs on Remote Access.

Doing everything from the computer is 10x easier, so use ssh.

In Termux

  1. Install OpenSSH pkg install openssh

  2. Host with sshd (opens on port 8022)

    1. Warning, you are exposing your phone to the world here.

  3. whoami should give current user (something like u0_a123)

  4. Setup password with passwd (Remember step 1.1, so don't set defaults)

  5. Do whatever you wanted to do.

Last. pkill sshd to close

Hosting stuff

Only real usecase of using a phone for selfhosting, is when you don't have your laptop, but other people for some reason do, and you want your phone to do the heavy lifting.

Figure out IP you will be hosting stuff from:

  • Localhost: 127.0.0.1 or localhost.
  • Local (home network): ifconfig
  • Public:

Awesome Selfhosted

What I managed to get running:

Atheos Web IDE

Github

Normal install won't work because Termux doesn't like sudo.

Atheos is written in PHP. So

Hence git clone https://github.com/Atheos/Atheos

cd Atheos

php -S [your local ip]:8000 (local network php server on port 8000)

Open [phone's local ip]:8000 in your computer browser and enjoy.

JupyterLab Python Notebook

Github

Given how Termux doesn't like pip, and how JupyterLab + Kernels are generally hard to get working, messing with JupyterLab will likely be futile.

Try pip3 install jupyterlab at pray that it works.

VS Code

Github

You can do VS Code online at vscode.dev, only caviat, you need to pay Github for hosting, or provide your own server.

At this point, consider signing up for Replit or some other online IDE. But if you are really set on hosting from your phone: they conviniently have a tutorial on their official website. (tldr pkg install code-server)

  • No JupyterLab because pip breaks
  • No Marimo because pip breaks

Python

Yes, pip constantly fails to install stuff