The Android Linux Terminal app is now widely available for Pixel users running the March 2025 update. ... Once I activated it and tapped this icon, I was asked to allow a 567MB download.

Today, Linux is only available on the latest Pixel devices running Android 15. When Android 16 arrives later this year, it's expected that all sufficiently robust Android phones will be able to ...

Jack Wallen/ZDNET. If you have a phone running Android 15, you can enable a full-blown Linux terminal that includes many of the commands you're used to running on Linux, and I have to say that it ...

But for developers, the ability to run Linux tooling, command line utilities, and apps like Android Studio could be a game-changer, especially as Chrome OS grows more Android-based over time.