Tiny Utils
$1.16
Advertisements
About Tiny Utils
Android Terminal Emulator, BusyBox, Frotz, Perl and SSH via Dropbear (dropbear just added, so need to do more testing with it) without rooting your device.
Tiny Utils combines tiny versions of many common and useful GNU/UNIX utilities and terminal into a single small Android application. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, and more.
Tiny Utils installs BusyBox, microperl (a small perl interpreter), patchelf, frotz (so you can play Z code interactive fiction games) and dropbear an SSH client and server. Tiny Utils also includes the Android Terminal Emulator within it, so you have a nice, proven work environment where you can use all this capability.
Tiny Utils is not all business though as it now has frotz which allows you to play z-code games. See the screen shots of examples of downloading and playing a couple of popular games (Zork and Spider and Web). Given how nice the Android Terminal Emulator is, I think this might be the best environment for playing z code games.
All combined, this give you many of the commands you are used to having while working at a GNU/Linux Terminal.
Find the full list of BusyBox commands here: http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
Also, Tiny Utils does not require you to have a rooted device to install it. Being such, it does not modify your Android system at all and can be uninstalled in a normal fashion. While some commands, like chroot, or su, require you to have root permissions, the most commonly used commands do not.
Known limitations:
Some commands, require rooting your device to work properly.
Some commands will not work as expected because Android is not GNU/Linux (tell me what you need/want if it is not working, so I can prioritize).
All that said, your device will get a LOT more useful and powerful with this installed.
Source code is posted and I will be posting many examples (over time) of awesome ways you can use this here: https://github.com/corbinlc/tinyutils
Please provide feedback. Rate it and tell others if you think it is good. If you run into any problems please file an issue here https://github.com/corbinlc/tinyutils/issues so I can get any details I need and so you can track progress on the issue.
Also, if you have any suggestions/contributions that you think will improve this further, don't be shy. While I am charging for this, I am doing so minimally to make sure this continues to be supported and improved going forward and I am pretty sure this will be worth more to you than what is being charged.
Tiny Utils combines tiny versions of many common and useful GNU/UNIX utilities and terminal into a single small Android application. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, and more.
Tiny Utils installs BusyBox, microperl (a small perl interpreter), patchelf, frotz (so you can play Z code interactive fiction games) and dropbear an SSH client and server. Tiny Utils also includes the Android Terminal Emulator within it, so you have a nice, proven work environment where you can use all this capability.
Tiny Utils is not all business though as it now has frotz which allows you to play z-code games. See the screen shots of examples of downloading and playing a couple of popular games (Zork and Spider and Web). Given how nice the Android Terminal Emulator is, I think this might be the best environment for playing z code games.
All combined, this give you many of the commands you are used to having while working at a GNU/Linux Terminal.
Find the full list of BusyBox commands here: http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
Also, Tiny Utils does not require you to have a rooted device to install it. Being such, it does not modify your Android system at all and can be uninstalled in a normal fashion. While some commands, like chroot, or su, require you to have root permissions, the most commonly used commands do not.
Known limitations:
Some commands, require rooting your device to work properly.
Some commands will not work as expected because Android is not GNU/Linux (tell me what you need/want if it is not working, so I can prioritize).
All that said, your device will get a LOT more useful and powerful with this installed.
Source code is posted and I will be posting many examples (over time) of awesome ways you can use this here: https://github.com/corbinlc/tinyutils
Please provide feedback. Rate it and tell others if you think it is good. If you run into any problems please file an issue here https://github.com/corbinlc/tinyutils/issues so I can get any details I need and so you can track progress on the issue.
Also, if you have any suggestions/contributions that you think will improve this further, don't be shy. While I am charging for this, I am doing so minimally to make sure this continues to be supported and improved going forward and I am pretty sure this will be worth more to you than what is being charged.
All Application Badges
Paid
app
app
Android
1.5+
1.5+
Android app
App History & Updates
What's Changed
Fourth release:
uninstall and reinstall if you have any issue launching.
added frotz, so you can play z-code games (see screen shots).
Use android ping instead of busybox ping.
ping, wget, nslookup, telnet, etc all support names and not just ip addresses.
Rate it if you think it is good. If you run into any problems please file an issue here https://github.com/corbinlc/tinyutils/issues so I can get any details I need and so you can track progress on the issue.
Fourth release:
uninstall and reinstall if you have any issue launching.
added frotz, so you can play z-code games (see screen shots).
Use android ping instead of busybox ping.
ping, wget, nslookup, telnet, etc all support names and not just ip addresses.
Rate it if you think it is good. If you run into any problems please file an issue here https://github.com/corbinlc/tinyutils/issues so I can get any details I need and so you can track progress on the issue.
Price update Price changed from $1.50 to $1.16.
Price update Price changed from $1.16 to $1.50.
More downloads Tiny Utils reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
Price update Price changed from $1.50 to $1.16.
What are users saying about Tiny Utils
O
by O####:
by O####:
wget in this package works well
K
by K####:
by K####:
Please Make GNU_Quake installer and Quake Add ons like Urban-T we would pay $2 or 99-uk-Pence to play the worlds best 1st person Game and all the Quake Add ONs. PLEASE anyone Reading this Review install thease APPs you Do NOT need to Root your phone and you get a Windows style Linux Experience. 5-STARs Apps. Well done to the HERO developer.
K
by K####:
by K####:
Really good so far. Bash scripts renaming hundreds of files with Perl regex on a wildfire s!
K
by K####:
by K####:
don't need to root your device to have access to many standard nix tools!
M
by M####:
by M####:
I had been hoping to use the microperl here to install TeXLive, but that doesn't seem possible; it seems to be able to load Perl modules, but building them on the device seems to require modules which it cannot, of course, build (or download, for that matter, since it does not seem to have CPAN access of any description) -- a chicken and egg conundrum. Otherwise it seems decent, but I'd hope for cpanm or something like that...or simply an option to install TeXLive directly, for that matter. (It's probably too large to install by default, of course.)
Z
by Z####:
by Z####:
Everything you could ever want!
L
by L####:
by L####:
wget in this package works well
Z
by Z####:
by Z####:
don't need to root your device to have access to many standard nix tools!
X
by X####:
by X####:
Ssh not working on Tiny Utils. It works on other free terminal apps.
X
by X####:
by X####:
Really good so far. Bash scripts renaming hundreds of files with Perl regex on a wildfire s!
T
by T####:
by T####:
This utility can appear understated but if you've used Linux or Unix then the commands on offer do really offer potential. ls, ps, pwd, cd, vi, ed, awl, sed perl. A phone is not the best medium for an interactive program run so the availabilty of awk, sed and perl offer the efficient prospect of writing a script. placing your data in areadable file and running. I've always preferred awk to perl and have run a couple of test scripts on test data and works brilliantly. Also useful to check running processes a
T
by T####:
by T####:
This makes my smartphone a useful Linux machine. I also use the implementation of Octave for Android and Addi a lot. Keep it up!
A
by A####:
by A####:
Please(!) add some basic docu, as functions are too many to remember what's inside. Then I'll give it 4 or 5 stars.
T
by T####:
by T####:
... without needing root. Awesome.
T
by T####:
by T####:
Great app for remote ssh
T
by T####:
by T####:
Yet again you provide useful tools for non-rooted users. Thanks a million. My only complaint so far is that some of the more basic functionalities of vi are missing (like u, the :g ex command, ...). I highly recommend the MessagEase keyboard for using these tools (and the terminal in general).
T
by T####:
by T####:
Needs More directions
T
by T####:
by T####:
Well, not yet but almost!
V
by V####:
by V####:
Useful utilities
G
by G####:
by G####:
Truly unleashes the hidden power of your phone and gives you total control. And no root access required! Can't beat that.
Y
by Y####:
by Y####:
Great app for remote ssh
Y
by Y####:
by Y####:
Tiny Utils - truly understated This utility can appear understated but if you've used Linux or Unix then the commands on offer do really offer potential. ls, ps, pwd, cd, vi, ed, awl, sed perl. A phone is not the best medium for an interactive program run so the availabilty of awk, sed and perl offer the efficient prospect of writing a script. placing your data in areadable file and running. I've always preferred awk to perl and have run a couple of test scripts on test data and works brilliantly. Also useful to check running processes and what is on the phone. The classic vi editor is available with use of special keys which can be looked up on the special keys option under the menu. Its not a criticism as within the limits i=of the phone and the classic way vi works special keys are unavoidable but I use tiny utils inconjunction with TED.
Y
by Y####:
by Y####:
a great way to get shell utils ... ... without needing root. Awesome.
U
by U####:
by U####:
Useful utilities
J
by J####:
by J####:
Tinybuntu! Well, not yet but almost!
L
by L####:
by L####:
Amazing Truly unleashes the hidden power of your phone and gives you total control. And no root access required! Can't beat that.
by S####:
please, let as `apt-get install' for: mc - vim(nox) - qmv - ...