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Neat! As a test I installed nano and python, then used pip to install flask, wrote a web application from nano and ran it from my phone... Opened it from my laptop and everything works like you'd expect.

Sometimes I forget that these devices are just little computers!

EDIT:

I tried to get pyserial working (so my phone could talk to an arduino mini over USB) but hit the issue of not being able to access /dev for lack of root. Still, it's very cool.



> Sometimes I forget that these devices are just little computers!

When vendors try so hard to lock everything down, yes, users tend to forget about what you can do once you have freedom to do what you want with your device.


Cool!. Was that a non rooted phone?


Yep, just a standard Pixel.


Did you try the Termux-chroot package mentioned in https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Differences_from_Linux to see if /dev might work ?


I still get "Permission denied" when I try to "ls /dev".




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