Can we bring back the Unix philosophy to Android?

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Maybe what we need is a way to visually chain smaller single purpose apps using a pipe interface like NODE-red

What other possibilities or efforts out there that exists?

What would be nice is being able to spin up custom recipes like how we can use pipe syntax in Linux to solve common problems without having to have seperate bulky programs.

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Android's equivalent to this is its Intent's and ContentProviders system, but I'm not sure you could use them in a pipe like way, plus most app authors have not chosen to implement the functionality in a meaningful way, outside of some quite old efforts such as the "Open Intent" suite of apps.

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