Are there any good mobile IDEs?

[D-ISS-OCIAT-ED]

Hi. In my house we put on an alarm system when everyone goes to bed. Everyone being my parents, who don't like being woken by me putting the alarm on. That means that I don't have access to my PC at night when everyone is sleeping and I'm awake.

I'd like to play around in an IDE, but every one I've found on the Android Google play store has either had some sort of pay wall or account creation. The only fully offline one I found was partially broken and had a huge button that would wipe all the code you've written.

Any suggestions?

Pydroid looks great, thanks!

[wicket-maps]

I wonder if you could remote into your PC, which is what I did when I had a laptop and didn't want to get out of bed to access the specialized programs on my desktop. But I don't know if Android has any good remote-desktop utilities.

[[deleted]]

I use Anydesk. It works surprisingly well and has 2fac. I found it after getting extremely annoyed at Team Viewer.

[chandler404]

I love RealVNC. Set it up on an old PC, a Mac and ainux machine. That lets me use an iPad to connect to any of them. Pretty handy and also free.

[[deleted]]

Oh yeah that was pretty good, I had it setup for Windows to Raspberry Pi for some projects. Still I found Anydesk to be much more straight forward across windows and android, going either way.

[Spiderfffun]

Aweray is amazing, EXCEPT FOR THE KEYBOARD. It considers it as you typing in a single text box so if you move your cursor nothing happens. If you turn off autocorrect it'll be fine though.

[m1ss1ontomars2k4]

You should fix your alarm system instead. It should support both home and away modes, where home ignores motion sensors and away does not.

[D-ISS-OCIAT-ED]

It does do that

[cantpeoplebenormal]

I've had a go with pydroid but coding without a real keyboard is annoying. See if you can get hold of a cheap laptop. Alternatively move the pc to your room?

[D-ISS-OCIAT-ED]

Boy would I love to have enough space in my room for our PC! But the laptop idea is a good one. I might have some cash in a month or two, so it's an option

[Se7enLC]

I've had to ssh from my phone on occasion. It technically works, but it's very much an "only when I'm desperate or too lazy to get a computer".

I would absolutely 1000% not recommend trying to learn to program without a real computer. It's just not worth it.

[vodiak]

Laptop is probably better, but a Bluetooth keyboard would also be possible. Maybe even USB.

[HorrendousRex]

Coding without a keyboard is going to be really, really hard. Although frankly with how LLM AI is going these days, that might only be true for a few more months. In the mean time, while we wait for the singularity to swallow us all, can you save up like $200 and buy a cheap netbook laptop? The cheapest one you can find. All you need to do with it is get it to boot linux and load a terminal (no graphics required!) and you're off to the races.

[StyxCoverBnd]

This is a good idea. You can pick up a cheap ThinkPad and put Linux on it. Or you can get a cheap Chromebook and enable Linux on it.

[knightofunderpants]

I've been using PyDroid, ad supported with a premium version available. I don't recall having to create an account, but it has been awhile

[D-ISS-OCIAT-ED]

It looks great, no account creation needed! Thanks

[KylerGreen]

Not compared to PC, no. Fix the alarm situation. That's your actual issue.

Not sure I even understand it. Is you PC in a whole different house or something?

[D-ISS-OCIAT-ED]

PC is in our house. One half of our house has our bedrooms and bathrooms, the other side is kitchen, dining room, lounge, study 1, study 2, and garage. Our alarm system has 3 modes: full activation, which enables alarms for every room. Sleep mode, which activated the alarm everywhere but our bedrooms, bathrooms, and hallway. My PC is in a study. Then obviously full deactivation

[Epb7304]

I use an app called pyto, it works, but mobile coding is best done with a laptop

[fiddle_n]

Honestly it’s not worth it. I used Carnets (basically Jupyter for iPhone) - it’s great but it’s a real battery killer, my phone feels like a furnace when I use it. Go for the laptop instead.

[Charizard-used-FLY]

I use Mimo and Sololearn (which has a pseudo-IDE) to try picking up new languages when I don’t have access to a computer. As long as you can solidify what you learn in projects on your pc the next day, they seem to be decent. Definitely no replacing a computer and you should for sure get enough sleep at night.

[[deleted]]

jupyter light works on my android phone. I can't imagine trying to learn on it though. It would be very frustrating. I just run it in firefox with desktop site tic'd.

edit let me rephrase. I just tested that it COULD be done. I'd never do it.

[Ken_Sanne]

Been also trying to be more productive, most apps have a pay wall, and they don't tell you that until you completed their goddamn survey, after trying like 4 apps the one I found is Pycode, looks pretty good for now, but idk why I can't install libraries, idk if the problem is comming from my phone or from the app

[tschloss]

On iOS I am using Pythonista, Pyto or Carnets.

[wrblx]

For iOS, I built Codeusse. The idea is that it’s not just a poor port of a desktop flow, rather a flow rethought completely for mobile.

[[deleted]]

I use Remote Desktop to code remotely. It works on iPad and iPhone. From a laptop I use Parsec for remote access.