HG2Gui

HG2Gui is a touch-optimised terminal designed after Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — every command, subcommand and argument is an animated pill thinger you tap, with the goal being to use a real shell without a keyboard.

Inspired by the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) aesthetic and built on Termux.

Features Point-and-click commands. The suggestion tree is the input method. Tap a category, tap a command, tap an argument. Picking the last parameter a command needs runs it immediately — no separate confirmation — or press Run yourself at any point. The keyboard is optional. A real Termux backend. Shell commands run in a long-lived shell session backed by the actual Termux bootstrap — the same rootfs archive the official Termux app installs — giving real bash, apt/pkg, and real coreutils, not Android's own toybox. It installs itself automatically on first launch, exactly like Termux does, with progress visible in the buffer. The tree reflects what's actually installed. Shell pills are discovered live from the bootstrap's own bin/, matched back to the package that owns each one via dpkg's own bookkeeping, and grouped into a category (Package management, Network, Development, …) — pkg install python and it shows up as a pill the next time a command finishes, no restart needed. Hyphenated command families (apt-get, apt-key, apt-mark, …) nest under one shared parent pill instead of cluttering the list as unrelated flat entries. A graphical file picker. Any command that takes a file argument gets a file… pill that browses the real filesystem through the same pill stack — no separate screen, no typing a path by hand. Interactive prompts, answered graphically. A command that stops mid-run to ask a yes/no question gets a dedicated Answer stack (YES/NO) instead of leaving you to type a blind reply; anything else falls back to the input field, whose Run button becomes Send. Kotlin-native suggestions. Autosuggestion (from history), "did you mean" (after a failed command), and alias hints (gs for git status, and friends) surface as ordinary pills, implemented natively rather than as a shell plugin — there's no live PTY for a shell's own line editor to attach to. A fixed set of built-ins for what Android exposes no shell path to. System toggles (wifi, bluetooth, airplane mode, flashlight, volume, brightness), call/contacts, a sandboxed vfs filesystem, calc, and edit — a small Compose text editor for files a real terminal editor can't render without a pty. Everything else (apps, alias, sharing files, and so on) is a real shell binary now, not a reimplementation of one. Sessions. Named terminal sessions, each with its own scrollback and working directory. Aliases. Native shell aliases plus ShellAliases.kt's own suggestion pills — no duplicate alias system layered on top of the real shell's. A real file manager. Search, sort, multi-select batch actions, in-place rename, an automatic media grid, and a storage-by-type breakdown over the vfs sandbox — folders are capsules that expand in place, siblings squishing into thin coloured rods beside them. The Guide. A chaptered glossary of real commands paired with invented, Hitchhiker's- Guide-style definitions, reachable from the command picker — reading material, not another way to run something.