nix-community/nix-on-droid

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2135 stars · 165 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Nix-on-Droid brings the Nix package manager to Android devices via a single-click F-Droid installable app based on a Termux terminal emulator fork. It provides a Nix module system for declaratively configuring the on-device environment and integrates with home-manager, without requiring root.

Use cases

• install nix package manager on android
• run nixpkgs software on my phone without root
• declaratively manage packages on android with nix
• use home-manager on android
• get a linux package manager on an arm android device
• replace termux with a nix-based environment

When to choose

• you want reproducible, declarative package management on a 64-bit ARM Android device
• you want access to nixpkgs' large prebuilt software collection on your phone
• you prefer Nix over Termux's package manager and already know Nix language

When to avoid

• you have a 32-bit ARM or i686 device, which is unsupported
• you want a full NixOS system rather than a proot-based environment
• you need something polished - the project describes itself as prototype-grade

Facets

application · maturity active

package-manager developer-tools cli configuration-management developer-tools operating-systems android-tools cli nix termux proot no-root home-manager nixpkgs terminal-emulator f-droid command-line android arm

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