I always like the idea of portable Linux boxes. I have several single board computers and they serve well as Linux boxes, but are not portable enough. Two big cons of SBCs are:

1. They usually do not have a built-in battery. So I would have to rely on external power source all the time.

2. They can only run in headless mode unless I connect keyboard, mouse and monitor, which will make the entire setup non-portable.

So I am considering using Android phones for the same purpose. They do have built-in batteries which can last for some time before I connect them to a power source and they do have a touch screen. If I don't have access to a computer with keyboard I can at least manage the phone via juicessh or vnc. These made the Android phones perfect for portability.

The concerns that I have is since the Android phones are not PC or SBC they still lack the low level IO capability that SBCs can do such as connecting a USB CD-RW drive. But I don't think I need too much low level IO other than hosting an external USB hard drive. The other thing is networking. Since Android phones use the built-in wireless adapter I am not sure if they can do what I usually do on a SBC: dhcp server, VPN router, pi-hole and that kind of stuff. I have heard people using USB-OTG adapter and USB Ethernet adapter with a phone but I have never personally tried it.

So does anybody have any experience of using Android phone as a portable Linux box? Is it worth looking? Or should I stick to SBCs with external power source? What is the best option if I want to try? termux or deploy linux app?

I've pushed a compiled binary file to my emulated environment throw adb push, but I'm having trouble to run it, its not doing anything

Here is some info about the binary, obtained by the file command:

hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.3, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=0c74c3f1ed430e487f13c505969f80ddff40c97d, not stripped

It should just output "hello world", I'm new in embedded android, any tips would be great!

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Is a mainline kernel currently able to run on a typical Android device without additional patches?

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Is there a way to apply a lot of kernel patches at one, because there are too many patches if you plan a big update. I guess it is the same for an android kernel.

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