According to recent Android Open Source Project commits, Google plans A to include a native Terminal utility in Android 16. This will build on the Android Virtualization Framework, introduced in v13.
The exact implementation isn’t clear but ferrochrome-dev-option patches have been submitted to AOSP that include a Linux Terminal toggle under Developer options.
There’s no confirmation that Terminal will be included in OEM builds of Android but it may feature in Pixel devices.
Android users rely on third-party apps for entering Linux commands, but Google is implementing Terminal into the OS.