Termux-Widget?

[Pete G.]

I thought the termux-widget add-on -- which supposedly adds shortcuts to termux scripts on your home screen -- would be a useful thing to have, so I installed it, but I can't get any  action out of it.  I gather that any script in $HOME/.shortcuts should appear in a screen shortcut,  but I never see anything.  The web is totally unhelpful.  Has anybody used it?

[gidds]

I've got it working.  The add-on does exactly what it says on the tin: creates widgets.  But it might not be obvious what a ‘widget’ is in the Android world…

Go to the home screen.  Find an empty space, and tap and hold on it.  The screen will zoom out a bit, leaving room for three new icons at the bottom: WALLPAPERS, WIDGETS, and SETTINGS.  Tap on WIDGETS, scroll down to the Termux section, drag the ‘Single shortcut 1 x 1’ onto your home screen somewhere, and then choose from the list of shortcuts (i.e. the files you created in ~/.shortcuts).  Hey presto!

(Caused me some head-scratching and web searching, too…)

It looks like any files in ~/.shortcuts are eligible; they don't need to be have the executable bit set, or have a particular filename or extension, or have anything special on the first line.

[Pete G.]

I've got it working. 

Yaay!! Thanks!  Me, too, now.  I have quite a few things to learn about Android!