One of Google’s significant innovations that has gone largely unnoticed this year was the rollout of Linux Terminal support baked right into Android. If you own a Pixel and are running the latest stable version of Android, you can enable the app and open up a world of possibilities. Sure, the terminal is daunting, but thanks to its presence in a virtual machine, it remains largely isolated from your phone’s critical inner workings. This makes it the perfect playground.
If you’re asking yourself how a black screen with incoherent lines of text can be a playground, you’ve come to the right place. In this piece, I’ll detail some useful, not-so-useful, and downright fun ways to use the Linux Terminal app on your Android phone.