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App Development in Mobile Devices

clamum

clamum

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I was going to put this in the Mobile subforum but maybe it's more applicable here. Feel free to move it if necessary, mods.

So does anyone know if there's an app development platform that allows you to write applications on a mobile device? Not necessarily to create apps that run on a mobile device, though that's OK, but I'm interested in being able to develop them on a mobile device.

I found this website, AppMakr, that allows you to create an HTML5 mobile app via a website with drag-and-drop. I haven't checked it out yet but it's not quite what I'm looking for. Ideally a dumbed-down Visual Studio for mobile devices is what I'd like but that's the idea.

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clamum said:
So does anyone know if there's an app development platform that allows you to write applications on a mobile device? Not necessarily to create apps that run on a mobile device, though that's OK, but I'm interested in being able to develop them on a mobile device.
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Development on a mobile device would tend to imply running there as well. Unless you have a dedicated server elsewhere? In which case, you probably want an SSH client. Or a VNC client. Or a Remote Desktop client.

What kind of development are you trying to do? HTML5? Or mobile or desktop apps for some other platform?

For general development I guess there's ViM Touch.
 
Ken g6 said:
Development on a mobile device would tend to imply running there as well. Unless you have a dedicated server elsewhere? In which case, you probably want an SSH client. Or a VNC client. Or a Remote Desktop client.

What kind of development are you trying to do? HTML5? Or mobile or desktop apps for some other platform?

For general development I guess there's ViM Touch.
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Ah, no type of development in specific, I guess. I just seem to have times when all I have is a mobile device and I think, "Damn, I wish I could work on some software right now."

You know, I never even thought about using Remote Desktop or something similar. I used to have some app on my phone that allowed me to remote login to my PC, as long as I left it on, and it worked fairly well. I might look into that method, thank you for the suggestion.

Still, though. A Visual Studio Mobile would be boss.
 
Unless you count something like a surface tablet running windows 10, I don't know of anything like that. Android has apps (and I'm sure iPhone as well) for remote desktop, or you could use a SSH app to connect to a linux/mac dev machine. I can't imagine doing anything useful on it though. Even typing up short code snippets in replies to online posts is a frustrating experience with an onscreen keyboard.
 
clamum said:
Ah, no type of development in specific, I guess. I just seem to have times when all I have is a mobile device and I think, "Damn, I wish I could work on some software right now."

You know, I never even thought about using Remote Desktop or something similar. I used to have some app on my phone that allowed me to remote login to my PC, as long as I left it on, and it worked fairly well. I might look into that method, thank you for the suggestion.

Still, though. A Visual Studio Mobile would be boss.
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You can always run Debian in a chroot and have access to things like gcc. Does that work? Also, you can install a terminal app and program in bash.
 
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clamum said:
Ah, no type of development in specific, I guess. I just seem to have times when all I have is a mobile device and I think, "Damn, I wish I could work on some software right now."

You know, I never even thought about using Remote Desktop or something similar. I used to have some app on my phone that allowed me to remote login to my PC, as long as I left it on, and it worked fairly well. I might look into that method, thank you for the suggestion.

Still, though. A Visual Studio Mobile would be boss.
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Wow, I feel like I would legitimately rather smack myself in the face with a ball peen hammer than do app development from my phone.
 
nakedfrog said:
Wow, I feel like I would legitimately rather smack myself in the face with a ball peen hammer than do app development from my phone.
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Hahaha 😉.

I did get Microsoft's Remote Desktop app and set that up and was able to login to my PC and run Visual Studio. Works great. But yeah, the keyboard leaves quite a bit to be desired. I actually think it wouldn't be bad if the keyboard had the typical symbols you need on a key instead of having to long press them. I use Swype and like it a lot, but they never come out with alternative keyboard layouts and the ones they have are useless; they're just different colors. I wish I could make my own.
 
clamum said:
Hahaha 😉.

I did get Microsoft's Remote Desktop app and set that up and was able to login to my PC and run Visual Studio. Works great. But yeah, the keyboard leaves quite a bit to be desired. I actually think it wouldn't be bad if the keyboard had the typical symbols you need on a key instead of having to long press them. I use Swype and like it a lot, but they never come out with alternative keyboard layouts and the ones they have are useless; they're just different colors. I wish I could make my own.
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Sounds like you really could use an ultra-portable laptop. I suggest the ThinkPad x260. 🙂
 
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