Running Emacs on Android

I just installed &quot;Termux&quot; and &quot;Hacker’s keyboard,&quot; ran `apt upgrade`, `apt install emacs`, and ran `emacs` — everything worked flawlessly.<p>Unlike the OP though, I barely touched the on screen keyboard for all of this — I just used android voice input, even for the terminal commands and `enter` command.<p>I literally said &quot;apt install emacs enter&quot; out loud and it just worked! Voice recognition has come a long way.

Now we need a gesture keyboard so we can type, or twitch, instead of using an onscreen keyboard.<p>Finger IO: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fingerio.cs.washington.edu" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fingerio.cs.washington.edu</a><p>Google&#x27;s Soli: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0</a><p>Perhaps a modified game controller: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;iGrip-Ergonomic-Keyboard-by-AlphaGrip&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B000O8AOO0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;iGrip-Ergonomic-Keyboard-by-AlphaGrip&#x2F;...</a>

Termux is powerful. I installed nodejs, ran qici engine out of the box and played with it for a while just to see how far I could get. It worked but the touchscreen is unbearable. It was fun to see it working, though. I also did a little bit of coding with a physical keyboard and an USB-OTG cable for a Lumines clone in Go. It was playable but my phone got stolen and I lost all the source code. By the way, I did all of that on an ancient Moto G 2014.

Emacs is my main editor, but it seems to me vim is far better suited to the limited interface of a phone.<p>There is always evil mode I suppose.

That&#x27;s a small step for man, giant step for emacs kind!!! Never really like any other editor and was waiting for that day to come since years!!!

It is fine to install emacs on an android device, but I can&#x27;t imagine doing any &quot;keyboard&quot; intensive work on a tiny screen. I&#x27;ve, in past, installed Vim-touch, just for the sake of it. But I almost NEVER used it (beyond first few minutes to make sure &quot;it works&quot;)

Very cool, I am going to try this when I get home! (I am in Asia on business and I don&#x27;t want to risk bricking my phone while on the road.)<p>With the Java IDE for Android, a remote keyboard and external display would make for a full on computer.

In conclusion, use Vim instead. ;)