The Laptop less Developer

The Problem

I've been active on Twitter lately

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Supper active like non stop scrolling down my feed 😂

And I saw a tweet

Mc Art Neil Gamutin

@mcartneil

@WellPaidGeek That's true, but without L.A.P.T.O.P - the more we struggle to understand the code just like me. Maybe I should just watch on youtube with searching fundamentals.

14:01 PM - 01 Jul 2020

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"what about those who doesn't have access to a laptop/computer"

This is my classmate, and I know him as one of the most passionate developers I meet.

And he had the opportunity during his internship to get hold of a laptop/computer.

Sadly due to the COVID-19 our internship were set to a hold.

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It hit me hard as I always complained how my laptop doesn't have a graphic card, needs constant electricity, heavier than a math textbook.

While I had a friend who was struggling doing the things he is passionate about because he doesn't have a laptop.

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So I thought through, made some research and made this

How to become a laptopless developer

One way to learn as a developer, or in anything actually. You need to apply on the things you've learned

And how are we going to do that?

Well lucky for you, I made this list on awesome tools you can use with just your phone

• These are chosen base on searching the word code in Google Play Store-
• This may vary on OS

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The Review

QuickEdit

🎆Features:

• Syntax highlighting
• 10,000+ lines support
• Small size 2.2mb
• Multi tab editing

🔑 My comment:

Fair perspective this is just an editor Not really and IDE but just so you can edit

✅ Pro:

• Works offline
• And small storage

❌ Con:

• Doesn't have a debugger, you can't tell whether you're writing your code correctly or not

Dcoder

🎆 Features:

• Rich Text Editor with Syntax highlighting.(Code Editor)
• Line number, Auto indent, Autocomplete Parenthesis.
• Undo Redo.
• File Open/Save.
• Custom Suggestion View.
• Multiple Language Support.
• User input for languages like C, C++, Java, Php, JavaScript, Node.js and others.
• Active debug view for faster access to Output.
• Thoroughly designed Algorithm problems to improve coding Skills and make programmers industry ready.
• Leader Board: To know where you stand amongst the vast Dcoder community.
• Custom Menu Drawer, Custom Code Editor Themes, Editable font Size for Editor and much more!!

🔑 My Comment*:*
✅ Pro:

• Have terminal
• Social network

❌ Con:

• Limited due to cloud base storage
• online

Acode

🎆 Features:

NOTE: You cannot run programs other than HTML, MarkDown and JavaScript, means you cannot run Python, PHP, Java, C/C++, etc, but you can use Termux along side Acode to run these programs

• No ads
• Edit any file from your device.
• GitHub support
• FTP support (No SFTP yet, plans to add it later)
• Supports syntax highlighting for 100+ programming languages
• Dozens of themes
• User friendly
• In-app HTML/Mark Down preview
• Interactive JavaScript console
• In app file browser
• Open source
• Supports 50,000+ lines
• Fast work flow
• Open more than one file
• Customizable
• Keyboard shortcuts

SPCK

🎆Features:

• Clone public or private (requires app password/token) repositories
• Quick snippets keyboard for faster code edits
• Git client integration (checkout/pull/push/commit/log)
• Diff viewer for git-enabled projects
• Preview web pages on your device
• Project or file code searching
• Code syntax analysis and smart auto-completer
• Code completion and context provider (signature/definition lookup)
• Auto code-indentation (using js-beautify)
• Light/dark themes available
• Integrated JavaScript console
• Preview markdown
• Export/import project/files to zip file
• Works offline (fixed)
• CSS Color selector
• Cool JavaScript labs to play with

🔑 My comment:
✅ Pro:

• Good for Web Development -
• ⚠️ Has dev tools for web

❌ Con:

• Can't run programs that are not HTML, CSS and JS.

🔑 Conclusion

• Eventually if you want to practice on a particular language other than JS

  • DCoder is your man
  • Alternatively you can use REPL it's mobile friendly

  ⚠️ But I found out you can actually run your own terminal using Termux

  and can even install python

  Which will be another topic for another day

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• Web Development

  • I'll go with SPCK Editor
    • ✅ Its just like vscode in your phone
    • ✅ Also has Emmet!
    • ✅ Plus to add works offline!
    • ✅ Has web tools!

• Simple Editor

  • Acode is your man
    • ✅ Just have better features
    • ✅ Like the extra toolbar for common movements
    • ✅ Intellisence

Tell me more if I missed any!