Is the Terminal IDE app for android compatible with Lollipop?

Question

I just ordered a Nexus 9 and will be using it to program. Has anyone tried to run Terminal IDE on Nexus 9 or any other devices using Android 5.0 Lollipop?

Answer 1

The "links" browser included with Terminal IDE ran fine on my Nexus 5 under KitKat, but it crashes with the PIE error mentioned under Lollipop. Other than that, Terminal IDE has performed flawlessly for me, for about a year now. Sorry--forgot to add: Terminal IDE under Lollipop is "stopped" if started with the Android keyboard, or Android keyboard option is toggled. It will resume running if the Terminal IDE keyboard option is toggled.

Answer 2

No, but termux seems like a good Terminal IDE replacement for Lollipop - and under active development. Has vim, ssh, git, gcc etc and a version of apt-get.

[It only works in Android 5+, so I haven't tried it yet myself.]

Answer 3

Edit: It looks like it's not working on all new devices, maybe a target SDK version incompatibility? Terminal IDE should work at least on some other devices since it uses statically compiled binaries to run different parts of it. Statically compiled binaries are PIE(position independent executable) safe which is a requirement in lollipop. I've been running it on a lollipop build with my Galaxy Nexus no problem.

EDIT2: Also there are a few binaries that are dynamically linked and are not PIE, so those won't work.