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deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by nfriedly »

qingcharles wrote: post #48
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/

Yeah, but I like that I control the environment, so I can install whatever utilities, runtimes, etc that I want.

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by flagged24 »

flagged24 wrote: post #70

My biggest gripe with vscode on Android (code-server pwa on DeX) is lack of mouse hover and text selection. With so much intellisense hidden behind mouse popovers not having access to that is a bit of a show stopper.

I installed devStudio and hover seems to work fine, probably due to the vnc layer. What doesn't work well is the mouse pointer, there is a weird offset between the native cursor and the vnc cursor.

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by skrowl »

neals wrote: post #59
reedf1 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate on how you use DeX specifically? I recently bought my first Samsung - and was a bit curious about it, surprised to hear that it is a powerful tool.

I spent some time last week trying to set this up. You can use Andronix to install Linux and a window manager onto you phone. You then use a VNC app to connect to that (local) Linux container and you'll have a fully working Linux phone. Works pretty well, though I had to jump to a few hoops as not all distro's worked on my Fold 3. DEX starts automatically when you plug HDMI into your (Samsung) phone. You then start t…

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Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by seniorivn »

qingcharles wrote: post #49
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, sy…

it's probably not as obvious when you are just out of jail(which is a shame, being locked up should be exactly the time when you can educate yourself, but not in real life probably)

But using linux terminal as devbox doesnt mean you dont have access to modern auto-complete syntax lookups formating etc, there are vim/neovim/emacs with any kind of configurations for all of it, and it can be preconfigured by others with projects like https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim or https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

So if you know anyone in the same kind of situation, you can advise them to use that.

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by Iaison »

tbenst wrote: post #19
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?

The web version you linked does not support the remote SSH extension, which is critical for many folks workflows. I can’t do any work without that extension. I’m curious if the android version supports this extension?

Shells offers an Android OS on the platform with the ability to SSH.

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by fire »

userland_tech wrote: post #45
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.

neat, any thoughts on how to use a different base app?

Re: deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

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Post by diogenes4 »

janAkali wrote: post #41
diogenes4 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)…

Well, the modal command system is sort of hacked onto the qwerty keyboard. Surely it'd be more natural to just "insert" directly rather than hitting "i".
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