Custom .apk builds (to have https://github.com/${username}.keys pre-installed), and the means to "find" the app over local WiFi automatically?

[dkorolev]

Hi folks,

Great project! I spent the weekend playing around, and stuff works like a charm.

(I had to termux-change-repo to have it work, but that's a minor detail not really worth mentioning.)

Two questions / feature requests.

1. A pleasant surprise was to realize that my Galaxy S7+ can "just" install an .apk from Github Releases. Which makes me think: why not streamline the process of pre-installing things into custom .apk-s? For instance, I'd love to fork your repo and have the Github runner build my own release, with my public key pre-set into the system. The goal is to minimize the number of "slow" keyboard taps on the tablet screen; ideally, to zero. Besides, the Android OS is rather locked down, so I'd be quite happy to have "dev environments" for various projects under various "application names" -- so that I could just "uninstall" the obsolete ones and add the "up-to-date" ones during the daily routine.

2. Another thing I've played around over the weekend is having my phone's camera work as an input video device for Zoom. Which worked well, both from Android and from iPhone, both into Windows and into Linux. Among other cool things, one that I particularly like is "find devices on local network": the mobile app "just" needs me to enable it to find local devices, and then my laptop magically finds it and pairs with it. The question is: What prevents Termux from acting the same way? It's far more secure, to begin with, and it'd reduce the number of extra taps to make "on device" to the absolute zero: I'd "just" have to install the .apk from the Release of my fork on Github, "just" open that "app", and then have a script running on my laptop (with the proper keyboard!) pair up with my Android device.

Thanks,
@dkorolev

PS: I'd love to help, but am a backend/server-side developer myself, and I've never touched Android/APKs in my life. So just treat me as a curious person who's eager to try things out so far.

PPS: Please kindly point me to a better place to ask these questions if Github discussions is not the right place.