This is an app exposing Android API to command line usage and scripts or programs.
The client helper binary (termux-api.c) generates two linux anonymous namespace sockets, and passes their address as in: - /system/bin/am broadcast ${SERVICE_CLASS} --es socket_input ${INPUT_SOCKET} --es socket_output ${OUTPUT_SOCKET} where the sockets are used to transfer: - input through stdin to the helper binary are forwarded to java code - java code may output feedback which are forwarded to the stdout of the helper binary
Client scripts which processes command line arguments before calling the termux-api helper binary are available: - The termux-api package