> Termux seems like a good start, but it's still just a VM in an app. Termux is surprisingly native. The thing holding your back is mostly SELinux sandboxing.

> Termux seems like a good start, but it's still just a VM in an app. Termux is surprisingly native. The thing holding your back is mostly SELinux sandboxing. Termux compiles most of the normal Linux userland, but adapted to use bionic libc and with /data/data/com.termux/files/ as $PREFIX. If you really want you can run "normal applications/normal distros" that depend on a "normal libc" by using proot, but even thought the performance is bad, it's still not a VM. You are only stuck with VMs if you want to run, say, x86_64 with qemu or JVM bytecode.