Non Proot Method Now Possible

[robertkirkman]

Hello today I made this tutorial how to run Node.js Puppeteer on Android without any proot-distro command required

Do you think a similar method might be added to this repo as an option, or should this repo remain as only the proot-distro based method?

[BOT-Neil]

@robertkirkman Is this possible with chrome?

[robertkirkman]

I am not sure, I would guess yes, but because Firefox has slightly more actively maintained community support within the Termux repository than Chromium, currently I am focusing on testing, maintenance and working on upstreaming fixes for the Firefox-based method first, then after I am comfortable with the level of completion of the Firefox-based method, I might also work on testing Chromium in a similar way.

The Firefox-based method can currently be used and works using the exact steps from my tutorial, but if you want to run it as commands only without having to connect to an X11 server app, you need to download and use the patched Firefox package I linked there, soon I hope to finish upstreaming my patch so that the Firefox from pkg install firefox directly can work for both headless mode and X11 mode the same, and I am working on several tools and coding techniques to help me do that.