Me

Marco Bonici

PostDoctoral Researcher at Waterloo Center for Astrophysics. Cosmologist working in the field of the large-scale-structure of the Universe. JuliaLang enthusiast.

Julia on Android: how to use Julia everywhere

in this blog post, I am going to show how to install a terminal emulator on your Android device and run Julia on top of it. This blog post is based on the tutorial that can be found at the following links:

First step: install Termux

The chosen emulator is Termux, but we are not going to use the Play Store version, but rather the one given by F-Droid.

After downloading F-Droid and installing it, you need to look for a Termux emulator usng the search bar. After installing Termux in this way, you should be able to update your environment

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

Install wget

apt-get install wget -y

Install proot

apt-get install proot -y

Install git

apt-get install git -y

Go to home folder

cd ~

Download script to install Ubuntu

git clone https://github.com/MFDGaming/ubuntu-in-termux.git

Go to script folder

cd ubuntu-in-termux

Give permission to run script

chmod +x ubuntu.sh

Run the script

./ubuntu.sh -y

Now you can start Ubuntu

./startubuntu.sh

Second step: install Julia

Download Julia binaries. Here is the download lonk at the last moment I updated the blog post

wget https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/aarch64/1.8/julia-1.8.2-linux-aarch64.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded archive

tar zxvf julia-1.8.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Add Julia to your Path. Open your bashrc

nano ~/.bashrc

Add to the end the Absolute path to Julia, which will look like 

export PATH="$PATH:/root/julia-1.8.2/bin"

Now source your bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

You can now start Julia from terminal, using simply

julia

If everything works, you should see something like this julia-android Now you can start bullying your friends, showing them how easy it is to run your Julia codes on your smartphone.