Google is enhancing Android 16’s Linux Terminal app to help graphical Linux functions, so Android Authority determined to place it to the check by working Doom. From the report: The Terminal app first appeared within the Android 15 QPR2 beta as a developer choice, and it nonetheless stays locked behind developer settings. Since its preliminary public launch, Google pushed a couple of adjustments that fastened points with the set up course of and added a settings menu to resize the disk, ahead ports, and backup the set up. Nonetheless, the most important adjustments the corporate has been engaged on, which embody including {hardware} acceleration help and a full graphical surroundings, haven’t been pushed to any public releases.
Fortunately, since Google is engaged on this characteristic within the open, it is potential to easily compile a construct of AOSP with these adjustments added in. This offers us the chance to trial upcoming options of the Android Linux Terminal app earlier than a public launch. To display, we fired up the Linux Terminal on a Pixel 9 Professional, tapped a brand new button on the highest proper to enter the Show exercise, after which ran the ‘weston’ command to open up a graphical surroundings. (Weston is a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, a contemporary show server protocol.)
We additionally went forward and enabled {hardware} acceleration beforehand in addition to put in Chocolate Doom, a supply port of Doom, to see if it might run. Doom did run, as you may see under. It ran effectively, which isn’t any shock contemplating Doom can run on literal potatoes. There wasn’t any audio as a result of an audio server is not out there but, however audio help is one thing that Google remains to be engaged on.
