deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android • Hacker News Board

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by janAkali » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 2:55 AM UTC

diogenes4 wrote: post #35

archargelod wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using termux + neovim as my default text editor on my phone. And it is surprisingly comfortable even with a touch screen keyboard.

Does it come with a modal keyboard or the same static one?

Not sure what you mean by modal keyboard, but there is fully customizable row of keys in termux.

I disabled it, because I use special android keyboard app[0] with a custom layout made from scratch[1]: all common symbols, arrows, esc, ctrl, alt, forward delete, paste and enter gestures etc. etc.

[0] - https://jbak2.ucoz.net/ (yes it's horrible website, but it's free and easy to maintain for the handicapped developer)

[1] - https://github.com/Archargelod/jbak2Templates-Skins

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by figers » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 3:11 AM UTC

Just installed, c sharp extension installed fine, looks very promising.

The only issue I've run into so far is signing into my Microsoft Azure and GitHub account since it doesn't seem to be able to load a web browser by default from this VS code instance?

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by userland_tech » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 4:27 AM UTC

figers wrote: post #42

Just installed, c sharp extension installed fine, looks very promising. The only issue I've run into so far is signing into my Microsoft Azure and GitHub account since it doesn't seem to be able to load a web browser by default from this VS code instance?

It is a pretty minimal install. I should probably put a web browser with it later. Thanks for the feedback. Please review it on the Play Store.

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by userland_tech » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 4:28 AM UTC

bb010g wrote: post #28

userland_tech wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An option using code server is coming. Will be in the same app, just different launch option.

How far away do you expect a Wayland-powered display to be? You're currently using VNC, but I'd imagine that https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/ > would also work while being smoother.

This is not the top of my list, but I am always looking at alternatives which can improve the way users interact with UserLAnd Technologies apps.

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by userland_tech » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 4:30 AM UTC

fire wrote: post #33

Does this use actual vscode or is it based on vscodium? I'm curious how much tweaking you needed to do to get this to work - I'd love to see this with https://cursor.sh (vscodium based) as the editor

This actually runs vscode.

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by userland_tech » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 4:31 AM UTC

iampivot wrote: post #32

the irony that you can't run Android Studio on Android, but can run VS Code?

As soon as there are arm binaries, we will make an app out of it :)

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by userland_tech » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 4:32 AM UTC

o1y32 wrote: post #6

Great! I have been wondering why something like this did not already exist, given that you can already run a full Ubuntu from termux (and indeed people have run a coder-server from such an environment). Someone must be able to create a more user-friendly version of vscode on Android. Will try this out on my Samsung tablet. My only concern is the memory management -- vscode (and its extensions) is not super friendly i…

When we run Ubuntu on Android, we prefer UserLAnd over termux :)

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by qingcharles » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 5:25 AM UTC

nfriedly wrote: post #34

I've been running https://github.com/coder/code-server for the past few months, and I really like it. It's basically self-hosted VS Code in a browser. I can switch from my desktop to my laptop, even to my phone, and pick up right where I left off with uncommitted changes, long running processes, etc. Additionally, I get the full resources of my server and don't have to worry about it running down my battery or causin…

The sad thing is, you shouldn't need it if only Microsoft would spend some time to make their own web-based version work on mobile devices:

https://vscode.dev/

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by qingcharles » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 5:28 AM UTC

kindawinda wrote: post #16

This seems like a complete waste since https://vscode.dev etc exist. Why would anyone want to develop inside of a walled garden?

Microsoft's version does not work on mobile. I have tried many times to make it work on Chrome on Android, but it just isn't designed to work on a small screen and is unusable. It's sad.

When I got out of jail all I had was smartphones I would borrow from friends and the only way I could end up developing sanely was to open a terminal to a Linux box and just use nano instead, which meant no IDE with auto-complete, syntax lookups, formatting and most importantly, debugging.

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by darknavi » Wed, Sep 06, 2023, 5:55 AM UTC

issafram wrote: post #38

Yes but why?

I work on Minecraft (bedrock) addon APIs and have found a thriving subculture of creators develop solely on their mobile (Android) phones.

What seems crazy to me seems to work for others. I assume many of them are constrained by what they can afford.