Running telnet server on Android
We now have an Android mobile app: https://github.com/eliranwong/UniqueBible/wiki/Android-iOS-Version. The current mobile version has much less functions than the desktop one. That's why we have a hybrid version to fill the gap, but the hybrid version is still under development.
If you like command line interface, you may consider running UBA desktop version on Android via an Android app called "Termux"
"Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment application that works directly with no rooting or setup required." Read more about Termux at: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page
With Termux, you can simply run UBA telnet-server on Android devices. You may read below for setup and startup.
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Download "Termux" from standard Play Store.
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Open "Termux" app after installed.
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Run the following commands on your Termux app to get everything ready:
pkg install root-repo
pkg install python
pkg install git
pkg install telnet
Open Termux app and run:
Remarks: It takes time for one-off automatic setup the first time UBA is launched. UBA should start up much faster after the first run.
cd UniqueBible
python uba.py telnet-server & disown
(Note: use "& disown" above, to enable you to connect to the server on the same Termux session. Read more below.)
You should see:
When starting for the first time, you might see it stuck on installing pygithub. It can take a long time for this to be installed. You can stop this by pressing the "CTRL" button then hit letter "C". Install the pygithub manually to see the status of install with "pip install pygithub". After pygithub is installed, start up UBA telnet-server with the above command.
You can use the following command to connect UBA telnet-server on the same device.
telnet localhost 8888
Instead of using command line telnet, you can install an Android telnet program such as Termius
You can also access it from another computer/device by running:
telnet <ip> <port>
You may place the following two lines in file '/data/data/com.termux/files/home/.bashrc':
python /data/data/com.termux/files/home/UniqueBible/uba.py telnet-server & disown
alias uba="telnet localhost 8888"
e.g. Go to a passage
John 3
e.g. Change bible version
text:::NET
e.g. Open commentary
commentary:::John 3
e.g. search bible with regular expression
regexsearch:::Jesus.*?love
e.g. documentation of available commands
.help
Watch this project https://github.com/eliranwong/UniqueBible to get notification about update.
Use "git pull" to update
cd UniqueBible
git pull
You can expand the library by adding resources to the folder "UniqueBible/marvelData"
https://github.com/eliranwong/UniqueBible/wiki/Remote-CLI
pkg install openssh
git clone [email protected]:eliranwong/UniqueBible.git