Blink Mobile Shell for iOS

We are excited to introduce you to Blink. Blink is a unique mobile shell for iOS. We are creating the terminal we wanted to have and use all day: fully configurable, great keyboard support, great terminal rendering, and crazy fast thanks to Mosh. We won't stop there, and plan to convert this into a great work environment by adding other tools like scp. Hope you find on it a trusty and enjoyable tool too.

Obtaining Blink

We want to share all the fun by inviting you to our Alpha. Would love to have you on board! If you would like to participate, follow and tweet us @BlinkShell a little about your interest and usage scenarios. Invitations will be sent out in waves, please be patient if you do not receive yours immediately.

Bugs should be reported here on GitHub. Crash reports will be automatically reported back to us thanks to HockeyApp. If you have any questions or want to make sure we do not miss on an interesting feature, please send your suggestions to our Twitter account @BlinkShell. We would love to discuss them with you! Please do not use Twitter to report bugs.

We can't wait to receive your valuable feedback. Enjoy!

Using Blink

Our UI is very straightforward and optimizes the experience on touch devices for the really important part, the terminal. You will jump right into a very simple shell, so you will know what to do. Here are a few more tricks:

• Use two fingers tap to create a new shell.
• Move between shells by swapping your finger.
• You can exit the session and get back to the shell to open a new connection.
• You can also close a session by dragging to fingers down.
• Use pinch gesture to increase or reduce size of text. You can also use Cmd+ or Cmd- if using the keyboard.
• Copy and Paste by selecting text o tapping the screen.
• Run 'config' to setup your keys. Install them to a server through ssh-copy-id.
• Ctrl and Alt modifiers at the SmartKeys bar allow for continuous presses, like in a real keyboard.
• In an external keyboard, use Cmd or Caps as Ctrl and Alt as meta (Default configuration).

Changelog

Version 0.722

- SSH session support. You can now start full ssh sessions inside the shell, or send remote ssh commands to a host.

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Attributions

• Mosh was written by Keith Winstein, along with Anders Kaseorg, Quentin Smith, Richard Tibbetts, Keegan McAllister, and John Hood.
• This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/).
• Libssh2
• Entypo pictograms by Bruce Daniel www.entypo.com.