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Stage 0
Nothing to install yet. Look at the device you already own and make a little room. Slow, careful typing is enough. A Bluetooth keyboard helps later. Thumbs are fine at the start.
This page is looking, not installing. The first install is Stage 1. A shorter doing list is Start today.
Your phone is already a computer. This stage only asks: is there space, power, and permission to install one extra store? You are not late if you spend a whole evening on just this.
Tap what is true on your phone. These boxes stay in this browser.
Stage 1 is F-Droid. That is the store Termux should come from.
Install unknown apps or unknown sources. Android asks this when you install F-Droid. It means: allow this app store that did not come from Play Store. That is expected here.
Storage permission for Termux, so it can see your Downloads folder if needed.
Termux is a typed-command room. It can live on older phones. The later IDE compiles real apps and asks more of the system. Different tools, different floors of the same building.
3.5 GB is the later builder, not hello.py. Do not stall Stage 1 because the IDE is heavy. Install the small tools first.
Install F-Droid from the official site only. Then get Termux from F-Droid, not Play Store.