What do you use the Android Terminal Emulator for?

Question

Why is there a terminal emulator in the Android App Market?

Answer 1

So you can get direct access to the commandline?

Android is based on Linux, so it's essentially the Linux commandline you'd be accessing here

If you don't know the Linux commandline:

http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php

Please note that it'll be a somewhat limited environment - you might need to root your phone to get access to everything, also some commands won't be available, you probably want to install something like Busybox to get a more featureful environment.

Cheers, Victor