Hello,
I try to run the hello world example with termux 117 and termux-gui 0.1.4 and pythonbinding 0.1.3, armv8l Android.

94@localhost ~
╰─➤ python helloworld.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/termuxgui/connection.py", line 36, in init
main = mainss.accept()[0]
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/socket.py", line 293, in accept
fd, addr = self._accept()
TimeoutError: timed out

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/hello.py", line 5, in
with tg.Connection() as c:
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/termuxgui/connection.py", line 62, in init
raise RuntimeError("Could not connect to Termux:GUI. Is the plugin installed?")
RuntimeError: Could not connect to Termux:GUI. Is the plugin installed?

You mentioned something about building termux from source, right? Do I really have to?

thescreen = tg.Activity(connection,canceloutside=False)
layout = tg.LinearLayout(thescreen, horizdivide)

testcheckbox = tg.Checkbox(thescreen,"speak",layout,False)

testbutton = tg.Button(thescreen, "configuration", layout)
testbutton.setlinearlayoutparams(0)
testbutton.setheight(tg.View.WRAP_CONTENT)

for eventmanager in connection.events():

	if eventmanager.type == tg.Event.click and eventmanager.value["id"] == testbutton:
		print (f"test checkbox state: {testcheckbox.checked}")

testcheckbox.checked does not change according to whether the checkbox is checked or not. In the example above, it always returns false.

I'm using Python to create a thing similar to a soft keyboard, and tried to use for xxx in xxx function to create button items, but I don't know how to get their id after I've created it.

I would like to use termux-gui from arch linux running in proot in Termux.
However there is some problem with UID checking of connection socket.

More precisely. Function _check_user in begin of connection.py file don't working properly.
Value of getuid() refer to current user of arch in proot, but socket uid is uid of android user (Termux application).
The rest of application (the part I try) work very good even behind proot.

Maybe easy fix of this problem will be adding some possibility how to tell what
is right UID of Termmux app (for example thought environment variables).

When creating an overlay activity without specifying TID, there's an error about unpack.
Python 3.11.6, termuxgui 0.1.6 running on Android 12, MIUI 14.

The code that is not working as expected:

import termuxgui as tg
import time

def main():
    with tg.Connection() as connection:
        activity = tg.Activity(connection, overlay=True)
        tv = tg.TextView(activity, "Hello world!")
        time.sleep(10)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/mergebot/bot_gui_overlay.py", line 11, in <module>
    main()
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/mergebot/bot_gui_overlay.py", line 6, in main
    activity = tg.Activity(connection, overlay=True)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/termuxgui/activity.py", line 29, in __init__
    self.aid, tid = self.c.send_read_msg({"method": "newActivity", "params": params})
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable int object

Adding a random tid to the tg.Activity makes the overlay to appear and fix the problem

activity = tg.Activity(connection, tid=123, overlay=True)

The overlay activity isn't documented in the TUTORIAL.md and would be useful.