PHP Termux API: Control Android device using Termux application

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Author

Luis Martinez Ulloa

This class can control Android device using Termux application.

It can execute the termux terminal emulator application from the command line and run several types of commands to control the several aspects of an Android mobile phone or table. Currently it can:

- Check the battery status
- Get the camera details
- Take a picture
- Copy text from and to the clipboard
- Retrieve user contact list
- Download files from a given URL
- Get the device location from the GPS or other device
- Send notifications to the device user
- Open URLs in the device default browser
- Share content file
- Send SMS message
- Get received SMS messages
- Get the phone information
- Show an Android toast notification
- Get the list of TTS (Text to Speach) devices
- Play text as speech
- Vibrate
- Scan WiFi devices
- Get the WiFi connection details

Innovation Award

February 2017
Number 2

Prize: One big elePHPant Plush Mascott

Termux is a Android application that allows running applications from a Linux shell. PHP can be run from Termux too.

This class provides a wrapper to access to services provides by the Termux API app to access and control several aspects of an Android device.

Manuel Lemos

Luis Martinez Ulloa

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Example


<?php



//wide test

// [email protected]

$photo = "photo.jpg";

$dwldfile = "http://cl1.php.net/get/php_manual_en.html.gz/from/this/mirror";

$url = "http://www.php.net/";

//please change this variables before running this example, to adapt to your

//language and own phone number.

$test = "prueba desde php 7";

//your phone

$phone = "999999999";

$lang = "es";

$notimpl = "no implementado aun.";



//---------------------------------------------------------------------------



if (file_exists("termuxapi.php")) {

    require_once 'termuxapi.php';



    $termux = new termuxapi();

    $msg = " ";

    $title = "Web Test";

    if (isset($_GET["f"])) {

        switch ($_GET['f']) {

            case '1':

                $title = "Location";

                $msg = $termux->location();

                break;

            case '2':

                $title = "Battery";

                $msg = $termux->battery_status();

                break;

            case '3':

                $title = "cam info";

                $msg = $termux->camera_info();

                break;

            case '4':

                $title = "take picture";

                $termux->camera_photo($photo);

                $msg = "<img src='$photo'>";

                break;

            case '5':

                $title = "get clipbd";

                $msg = $termux->clipboard_get();

                break;

            case '6':

                $title = "set clipbd";

                $termux->clipboard_set($test);

                break;

            case '7':

                $title = "contacts";

                $msg = $termux->contact_list();

                break;

            case '8':

                $title = "download";

                $termux->download($dwldfile);

                break;

            case '9':

                $title = "notify";

                $termux->notification($test);

                break;

            case '10':

                $title = "open url";

                $termux->open_url($url);

                break;

            case '11':

                $title = "share";

                $termux->share($photo);

                break;

            case '12':

                $title = "sms inbox";

                $msg = $termux->sms_inbox();

                break;

            case '13':

                $title = "sms send";

                $termux->sms_send($phone, $test);

                break;

            case '14':

                $title = "phone info";

                $msg = $termux->telephony_deviceinfo();

                break;

            case '15':

                $title = "toast";

                $termux->toast($test);

                break;

            case '16':

                $title = "tts engines";

                $msg = $termux->tts_engines();

                break;

            case '17':

                $title = "tts speak";

                $termux->tts_speak($test, "", $lang);

                break;

            case '18':

                $title = "vibrate";

                $termux->vibrate();

                break;

            case '19':

                $title = "wifi info";

                $msg = $termux->wifi_connectioninfo();

                break;

            case '20':

                $title = "wifi scan";

                $msg = $termux->wifi_scaninfo();

                break;



            default:

                $msg = $notimpl;

                break;

        }

        if (strstr("{[", substr($msg, 0, 1)) !== false) {

            $msg = "<pre>$msg</pre>";

        }

    }

}

$selfie = basename(__FILE__);

?><!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">

    <head>

        <meta charset="utf-8">

        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">

        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">



        <meta name="description" content="testing of termux:API from php">

        <meta name="author" content="">

        <title>Termux:API <?= $title ?></title>

        <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-BVYiiSIFeK1dGmJRAkycuHAHRg32OmUcww7on3RYdg4Va+PmSTsz/K68vbdEjh4u" crossorigin="anonymous">

        <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-wvfXpqpZZVQGK6TAh5PVlGOfQNHSoD2xbE+QkPxCAFlNEevoEH3Sl0sibVcOQVnN" crossorigin="anonymous">

        <style>

            p > img {

                width: 100%;

            }



            body {

                padding-top: 70px;

                padding-bottom: 30px;

            }



        </style>

    </head>



    <body>



        <nav class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">

            <div class="container">

                <div class="navbar-header">

                    <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbar" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="navbar">

                        <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>

                        <span class="icon-bar"></span>

                        <span class="icon-bar"></span>

                        <span class="icon-bar"></span>

                    </button>

                    <a class="navbar-brand" href="<?= $selfie ?>">Termux:API <?= $title ?></a>

                </div>

                <div id="navbar" class="navbar-collapse collapse">

                </div>

            </div>

        </nav>



        <div class="container theme-showcase" role="main">



            <p>

                <a class="btn btn-default" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=1"><span class="fa fa-map-marker"></span><span class="fa fa-question"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-primary" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=2"><span class="fa fa-battery-4"></span><span class="fa fa-question"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-success" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=3"><span class="fa fa-camera"></span><span class="fa fa-question"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-info" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=4"><span class="fa fa-camera"></span><span class="fa fa-flash"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-warning" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=5"><span class="fa fa-copy"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=6"><span class="fa fa-paste"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-default" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=7"><span class="fa fa-users"></span></span><span class="fa fa-list"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-primary" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=8"><span class="fa fa-download"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-success" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=9"><span class="fa fa-flag"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-info" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=10"><span class="fa fa-globe"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-warning" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=11"><span class="fa fa-share-alt"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=12"><span class="fa fa-envelope-o"></span></span><span class="fa fa-list"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-default" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=13"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-primary" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=14"><span class="fa fa-mobile-phone"></span><span class="fa fa-question"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-success" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=15"><span class="fa fa-comment"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-info" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=16"><span class="fa fa-volume-off"></span><span class="fa fa-question"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-warning" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=17"><span class="fa fa-user"></span><span class="fa fa-volume-up"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=18"><span class="fa fa-mobile-phone"></span><span class="fa fa-bomb"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-default" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=19"><span class="fa fa-wifi"></span><span class="fa fa-area-chart"></span></a>

                <a class="btn btn-primary" href="<?= $selfie ?>?f=20"><span class="fa fa-wifi"></span><span class="fa fa-list"></span></a>

            </p>



            <p>

                <?= $msg ?>

            </p>





        </div>

        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

        <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-Tc5IQib027qvyjSMfHjOMaLkfuWVxZxUPnCJA7l2mCWNIpG9mGCD8wGNIcPD7Txa" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

    </body>

</html>

Screenshots (5)

Files (9)

File	Role	Description
`clipshow.php`	Example	Clipboard Example
`location.php`	Example	Location Example
`termuxapi.php`	Class	The class
`test.php`	Example	Web test all methods

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This week:	0

All time:	4,390
This week:	64

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Utility:	89%
Consistency:	85%
Documentation:	-
Examples:	78%
Tests:	-
Videos:	-
Overall:	61%
Rank:	1099

Great use of android features 7 years ago (Eric Wambugu)	65%
Thats a very good class ;-) 8 years ago (Jos� Filipe Lopes Santos)	70%

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