ExTV/Podroid v1.1.8 on GitHub

What's New in v1.1.8

This release ships a fully-featured in-app terminal — inline images, modern escape-sequence support, ligatures, and a top-sheet Quick Settings panel with custom font and theme import — and resolves two long-standing stability bugs (Pixel 10 SIGILL, orphan VM after uninstall).

Terminal — image protocols

Sixel: chafa, lsix, img2sixel, lazygit thumbnails, and any tool that emits DCS-Sixel now render inline. Fixed two parser bugs in the upstream fork along the way (the bare Pa;Pb;Pcq intro and the missing $ / - flush triggers).
iTerm2 (OSC 1337): imgcat and friends just work.
Kitty graphics protocol (a=T,f=100,t=d,m=0/1,c=,r=): multi-chunk PNG support, used by yazi/lf preview panes and kitty +kitten icat.

Terminal — modern features

DECSET 2026 synchronized output: the emulator advertises and honors atomic-frame mode, so btop / nvim / lazygit no longer flicker during partial redraws.
OSC 8 hyperlinks: tap-to-open URLs from git, gh, lazygit, etc.
HarfBuzz ligatures: 'liga' on, 'calt' on is enabled on the Paint, so JetBrains Mono / FiraCode / Cascadia render ===, =>, !=, -> as fused glyphs.
XTVERSION (CSI > 0 q): emulator answers \eP>|Podroid <ver>\e\ so Neovim ≥0.10 and other modern apps detect the terminal correctly.
COLORTERM=truecolor is now exported from /etc/profile.d inside the VM, so apps detect 24-bit color support without manual configuration.

Quick Settings — minimal top-sheet rewrite

Drops down from the header in one tap, height-capped so the extra-keys row stays visible in landscape.
Three-column grid per section: 4 visible swatches + More (full picker with search) + + Add (import).
Continuous font-size slider, compact toggles for haptics and extra keys.
Custom fonts: + Add opens the system file chooser (SAF). Drop in any .ttf or .otf; long-press a custom font to remove. No file-manager permission gymnastics required.
Custom themes: paste a terminalcolors.com URL and the app fetches the Alacritty TOML, parses it, and adds it to the picker.

Fixes

Pixel 10 SIGILL on launch: QEMU's coroutine layer used Bionic's sigsetjmp/siglongjmp, which fail PAC AUTH on ARMv9.2 (Tensor G6) when Downloads sharing is enabled. Replaced with a PAC-free aarch64 asm shim (libqemujmp.a) linked into coroutine-ucontext.c.
Orphan VM after uninstall / OOM kill: a tiny native launcher (libpodroid-launcher.so) now wraps QEMU and sets PR_SET_PDEATHSIG = SIGKILL before execv. The VM dies with the app instead of reparenting to PID 1 and continuing to consume RAM until reboot. Verified on Android 12 (rooted) and Android 16 (unrooted).
Update prompt regression: 1.1.x-debug no longer compares as older than 1.1.x, so the in-app update banner stops nagging on every launch.
Cursor flicker on keyboard slide: removed a redundant forceUpdateSizeFromView call that was racing with tv.updateSize() and triggering two SIGWINCH resizes per keyboard animation.
Cursor flicker on extra-keys toggle: cached the last applied font size so flipping CTRL/ALT no longer re-pushes setTextSize + updateSize on every recomposition.
dmesg cleanup: 9p msize lowered to virtio's actual cap (512000); deprecated kernel elevator= cmdline replaced with per-device sysfs writes in podroid-bootstrap.

Performance (TCG, no KVM)

-cpu max,sve=off: SVE's variable-length vector instructions are expensive to translate and effectively unused by Node, Podman, and most container workloads. Dropping them speeds general guest workloads.
tb-size=512: bigger translation-block cache helps JIT-heavy guests like V8/Node.

Internals

The terminal layer now lives as two local Gradle subprojects (terminal-emulator, terminal-view) vendored from MatanZ/termux-app:sixel4, instead of a JitPack AAR. We can patch the parser in-tree.
64 KB PTY buffers, deduplicated MSG_NEW_INPUT, and a hoisted RectF reduce wakeups and GC pressure on image-heavy frames.

Installation

Important: Delete any older Podroid app versions before installing.

Uninstall the existing Podroid app completely
Download and install the new APK
You may need to allow installation from unknown sources

Note: This is a debug build as per project convention.