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Ask HN: Are you coding on your android/iOS tablets?

by johannkaupen on 12/11/16, 1:32 PM with 2 comments

I'm wondering how many people are actually working either on an iPad or Android tablet.

Whenever you search for IDE or editors in both play store and app store, the obvious ones don't offer solutions for these platforms and there are very few to choose from. There is a lot of learn to code sources but that's it.

Is there anybody who actually gets real work done or even uses one of the two platforms on a daily basis?

Why wouldn't you not do that even if your favourite editor/IDE supports the platform?

  • by sheraz on 12/11/16, 3:08 PM

    I know this doesn't "technically" answer your question, but the closest I get to using an iOS device for coding is Duet Display [1]. It turns your iphone/ipad into a 2nd monitor.

    It is really cool and works well enough that I use it to roll log files in terminal windows. It is nice to have a 2nd monitor when in a pinch.

    [1] - https://www.duetdisplay.com/

  • by TechHawk on 12/11/16, 6:23 PM

    I do it when I am on the go and feel like getting some light work done. Mostly small adjustments which don't require the whole codebase but just single files. For doing more complex work I often feel to restricted: I can't start, for example, Vagrant to test my changes.

    I am talking about iOS here, I do not know what the experience is like on Android. By the way, I find Textastic to be a great editor on iOS, it is a universal app, so it runs on iPads as well.