How to run terminal command in Android application?
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Solution 1
You have to use reflection to call android.os.Exec.createSubprocess():
public String ls () {
Class<?> execClass = Class.forName("android.os.Exec");
Method createSubprocess = execClass.getMethod("createSubprocess", String.class, String.class, String.class, int[].class);
int[] pid = new int[1];
FileDescriptor fd = (FileDescriptor)createSubprocess.invoke(null, "/system/bin/ls", "/", null, pid);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(fd)));
String output = "";
try {
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
output += line + "\n";
}
}
catch (IOException e) {}
return output;
}
Solution 2
Try this answer there is way to run shell commands on android programmatically https://stackoverflow.com/a/3350332/2425851
Solution 3
Different solutions could be found here: http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/wiki/ShellCommands I've not tested them yet.
Author by
Osama Gamal
Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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Osama Gamal almost 2 years
How to send a command to the terminal through android app and get the output back? For example, sending "ls /" and getting the output to print it in the GUI?
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Josh Gao almost 14 yearsOops, that'd be the reflected class.
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ademar111190 over 10 yearsI'm getting "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: android.os.Exec"