Android’s built-in Linux Terminal is getting new features with the latest Android Canary update. Android Canary brings several small interface changes throughout the Terminal. It also brings an ...

Qualcomm’s powerful new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip unfortunately doesn’t support Android’s new Linux Terminal feature. This is because the feature requires support for “non-protected” virtual ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an ...

A Linux terminal on Android sounds like a niche hack, until you actually try it for a while. Google itself is taking the terminal on Android seriously, as evident by the new and rather impressive ...