Barely, although termux makes it a lot more reasonable. It's more a package management issue.
It's quicker than any of the YouTube downloader apps I've tried!
How it works: in ~/bin there's a termux-url-opener script that handles what you share:
"#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
*youtu*)
echo "$1 is a YouTube URL,
downloading"
sh ~/shortcuts/dl_yt.sh $1
..."I love it and am still finding new uses for Termux. I've got neovim and all my dotfiles loaded, so in a pinch I can ssh into my phone to do some work.
youtube-dl -f bestaudio -x --no-progress -o "~/storage/music/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$1"
This generally gives me .opus files, which play OK but my player can't change the tags.
Modern Android has been locking down access to everything that isn't an NDK public API.
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis
Given the changes started with Android 7 to block access to everything else?
In fact, https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Differences_from_Linux