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

3 pointsby johannkaupenover 8 years ago
I&#x27;m wondering how many people are actually working either on an iPad or Android tablet.<p>Whenever you search for IDE or editors in both play store and app store, the obvious ones don&#x27;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&#x27;s it.<p>Is there anybody who actually gets real work done or even uses one of the two platforms on a daily basis?<p>Why wouldn&#x27;t you not do that even if your favourite editor&#x2F;IDE supports the platform?

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sherazover 8 years ago
I know this doesn&#x27;t &quot;technically&quot; answer your question, but the closest I get to using an iOS device for coding is Duet Display [1]. It turns your iphone&#x2F;ipad into a 2nd monitor.<p>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.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.duetdisplay.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.duetdisplay.com&#x2F;</a>
TechHawkover 8 years ago
I do it when I am on the go and feel like getting some light work done. Mostly small adjustments which don&#x27;t require the whole codebase but just single files. For doing more complex work I often feel to restricted: I can&#x27;t start, for example, Vagrant to test my changes.<p>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.