Termux, Android and Perl

LanX has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Anyone else using Perl on Android here? (See Termux)

I'd be interested to know what for? :)

Share your use cases please!

Cheers Rolf
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Re: Termux, Android and Perl by johngg (Canon) on May 30, 2019 at 14:19 UTC
I have Termux installed on my phone and tablet but have used Perl only a little, really just to test that scripts written for a Linux environment could, with minor shebang tweaking, run under Android. I don't really understand enough about how Android works, how it lays out its filesystem and how applications are segregated into their own little worlds. I don't currently have any Android/Perl projects in mind. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply]
Re^2: Termux, Android and Perl by LanX (Saint) on May 30, 2019 at 17:35 UTC
> I don't currently have any Android/Perl projects in mind. I deliberately asked an open question, but let me elaborate further One is able to ... share stuff (links, text) with termux scripts in the bin directory can handle those shared things install cpan modules forward a link to android's browser start a Web server listening on local host Isn't that pretty much all you need to write an "App" in Perl? Example? Well what about a Perlmonks-App hosted on CPAN? :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]
Re: Termux, Android and Perl by morgon (Priest) on May 30, 2019 at 22:44 UTC
Yes, I am using perl on Android. But in a Debian-environment on top of termux (https://github.com/sp4rkie/debian-on-termux). And mostly I use it to remove drm of ebooks which probably is not even legal, so I won't dwell any further on it here...	[reply]