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by Wonderfall 1570 days ago
That's not a sustainable approach as these old APIs will be obsoleted by a future version of Android. The correct approach is to follow modern practices that will guarantee security & privacy. In the case of Termux, they're well aware of the issue: https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2155

This is a similar situation to iOS which has a saner app ecosystem for this reason (in my opinion). That doesn't prevent apps with the same purpose to exist. iSH and a-Shell are examples of that on iOS. UserLAnd on Android takes the proot approach: https://userland.tech/