it usually is pretty light on battery, but when i plug it into my computer, it:
tablets are such a high baseline, honestly
even super-old ones can be extraordinarily useful, and it always feels nice being able to reuse things like this in such meaningful ways ^^
@bx aww, dang. i know older builds worked on older versions, maybe you could sideload one of those..?
@thingywott ooooo, i'll def give this a shot, it'd be great if i can get termux on android 4.1 esp since then i could run it on my old phone too.
makes me wonder what newer apis termux actually uses at all, assuming it's nothing too essential wonder how hard it'd be to stub them out
@bx oh yeah!
that sounds like it would be a bit of a project, though i guess less of one if you're starting with something for android 5 rather than the newer releases
@thingywott yea definately, i'd also hope gur older builds wouldn't need me to install android studio :p
@bx unfortunately, the gradle plugin for android dev is a nightmare to use without it
i tried very hard to do without it, but they really do want you to use that ide
but, if you're not deterred, you can still grab the cli skdman and use that to install a version of the sdk that will run on your old stuff, and ./gradlew assemble
can be your error checking--but you'll need to set the project to use the older sdk
you won't have any code assist or emulators, but it will work otherwise!
@thingywott i just want to be able to use my own text editor and have a command to compile that spits out errors, without having to deal with gur laggy interface and confusing menus of android studio :p
(oh and last i tried it used almost a quarter of my smol laptop's ram)
@thingywott I recently got an old tablet given to me, touch doesn't work, battery is dead (but it gots a barrel jack), was sad to learn termux needs android 7, since using it with mouse + keyboard is surprisingly pretty ok