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Termux terminal on Android support #132

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I like learning on boot.dev on my Android tablet (in desktop mode with physical keyboard). However, so far this only worked with lessons that ran in the browser, not with the CLI lessons. The last few days, I have been looking at ways of doing local coding on my tablet. I found a neat open source Android Linux terminal, Termux.

The terminal offers a lot of packages, and I can even install typescript, python, golang, and bootdev! I can run bootdev CLI, login, but the problem comes when trying to run a lesson (I only tried the typescript course so far). Bootdev CLI returns the message:

Error: lesson is not supported for your operating system (android); try again with one of the following: [linux darwin].

How easy/possible is it to make the CLI tool work on the Termux terminal? I am not familiar enough with the requirements to understand where the pain points are for this compatibility issue.

For me this would be wonderful as I like learning on my tablet as this does not fix my learning to my desktop environment.

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