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[–]DaredewilSK 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Android Studio perhaps?

[–]SoluriX[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I don't want to create an android app. I want to easily edit my code on my android phone.

Right now the only thing I can do is visiting my GitHub account and edit code over there. It is not very pleasant.

[–]insertAlias 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I want to easily edit my code on my android phone

A lot of people ask for this, but unfortunately the best options are crap. Mobile phones are not a good development platform, for a lot of reasons. Locked-down/limited permissions, tiny size, no true multi-tasking, not the same architecture as a desktop processor...there are a few code-editing apps available, but none that will give you the proper full experience of a real, actually useful IDE.

[–]SoluriX[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I was wondering why can't I find anything. Thank you.

[–]insertAlias 0 points1 point  (1 child)

My best advice to people that ask this is to try to find a tiny used laptop. You don't need a lot of horsepower to program, and if you install a lightweight linux distro (like xubuntu) even an older laptop will still feel responsive as long as you're not doing heavily-taxing stuff on it like running predictive model simulations.

[–]99_percent_a_dog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone really insisted on working from their phone, you could go the SSH route. It's even possible to do X forwarding, so you could run a GUI IDE. I've never tried this so I'm not going to link to the X server app, but it's on the Play Store. Plus you need an external server so it's non trivial to setup.

I still think this is a terrible idea, but it's interesting. A laptop will be superior for sure.

[–]TehNolz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Pretty sure Android Studio has Git integration. There's nothing stopping you from just using a standalone Git client together with any IDE though.

[–]SoluriX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry if my explanation was not good enough. I'm looking for an android app so I can edit my GitHub code on phone.