[General Topics] lover:
If you are Ubuntu/Linux user You might have heard of Hollywood Terminal https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood , Thanks to Termux terminal without needing to ROOT you can turn your Android Device into a hacking scene it's a geeky way to impress your friends.

Hollywood script is a dark terminal with ascii text, diagrams and hex code changing continuously, it essentially creates a random number and configuration of split screens in your terminal and launches busy looking applications like htop, directory trees, source code files, and others, and switch them out every few seconds.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXKxVe9b3wE[/youtube]

UPDATE:

After my workaround to run the Hollywood Terminal, the Termux development team were kind enough to add the package directly for Termux, (although I have requested the package in 2017)

To directly install Hollywood Terminal in Termux use:

pkg install hollywood

because of End of android-5/6 support on 2020-01-01 on Termux, if you have device bellow Android 7 then you use legacy Termux environment which doesn't have new Packages or they are un-maintained and will not receive any updates. so you need to do more steps:

in this Tutorial i explain to run Hollywood Script with scriptlets/shortcut from the home screen or Create a new Action in Tasker.

Requirements:

Termux

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux&hl=en_US

Not Neccessary but if you want to run Hollywood Terminal with one Click or use it in Tasker you need these:

Termux: Task

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.termux.tasker/

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux.tasker

Termux: Widget

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.termux.widget/

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux.widget

Installation:

After installing Termux, Run the Terminal, use these commands to update the repositories

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Now we install Ubuntu chroot for Termux But before you use it, you need install Wget and PRoot to install Ubuntu chroot in Termux:

pkg install proot wget

After you install Wget and PRoot,:

mkdir ~/ubuntu_directory

Then:

cd ~/ubuntu_directory

Download the chroot with this command:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Neo-Oli/termux-ubuntu/master/ubuntu.sh
bash ubuntu.sh

After Ubuntu chroot downloaded, you can run it by executing command:

./start-ubuntu.sh

If you are in $HOME directory, you can run it with this command:

./ubuntu_directory/start-ubuntu.sh

Now that you are in Ubuntu chroot for Termux we can install Hollywood with these commands:

apt-get update
apt-get install hollywood

The Installation takes some minutes as it needs to install some packages like Byobu, during the installation it will ask you some question about language/keyboard/character support which you choose as you wish, after installation is complete you can test run the Hollywood by this command:

hollywood

it takes some seconds to run but it works, it's more cool if you have an Android Tablet.

to exit Hollywood just press Ctrl+C a bunch of times, then type: 'exit' command to exit theUbuntu and same for Termux if you want to close it

Now you have Ubuntu and Hollywood installed but you want to run it with one click from homescreen or call it from Tasker for example with AutoVoice!

To Create Shortcut or scriptlets to run Hollywood from the home screen you need to have Termux: Widget installed

Open Termux and type:

mkdir -p $HOME/.shortcuts

Then:

cd .shortcuts

now we need to create the script, this can be done in many ways but here we use vi editor:

vi hollywood.sh

now VI editor opens, if you don't see Esc in Termux use Volume Up+Q, now paste/type:

#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
bash /data/data/com.termux/files/home/ubuntu_directory/start-ubuntu.sh /usr/games/hollywood

to exit VI you also you need to press Esc two times then

Type

:wq

into Terminal and press ↵ Enter

now just to be sure use this command to see if your script is created:

ls

it should list hollywood.sh

you can exit the Termux now and go to your Android Homescreen & touch and hold an empty space. Tap Widgets, select Termux:Widget and place it on your home screen. you can choose the small scriptlets or the shortcut to the script directly, now with one click on homescreen you can run the Hollywood Terminal and impress your friends.

To be able to call and run Hollywood in Tasker you need Termux: Task installed, Open Termux and type:

mkdir -p .termux/tasker
cd .termux
cd tasker

Then you can create the script the same way explained with vi editor, now in Tasker by choosing Termux plugin you will be able to run the script, there are limitless use with Tasker profiles, my favorites is to run it with AutoVoice and Google Assistant, so i don't even need to type or click on anything.