Using Termux as a development environment Termux can be used to write and run code, like any desktop PC or laptop. It can be used to brush up on programming languages like Python or scripting language like Shell / Bash script.

If Termux exits immediately after launch or cannot properly start shell, it is likely that your environment is broken. The cause of which is most likely a a fatal error in a dotfile read by your shell, which causes it to immediately exit. To recover from such errors Termux provides a Failsafe Session.

NOTICE: It is highly recommended that you update to v0.118.0 or higher ASAP for various bug fixes, including a critical world-readable vulnerability reported here. Also reminding again to users who have installed termux apps from google playstore that playstore builds are deprecated and no longer supported.

Why is Termux not on the Google Play Store? Because of some issues: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An... "Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store due to android 10 issues and have been deprecated. The last version released for Android >= 7 was v0.