The Laptop less Developer
Tags: productivity, beginners, android, todayisearched
Published: 2020-07-03 04:13:20

## The Problem

I've been active on Twitter lately

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[@dylan_balagtas](https://twitter.com/dylan_balagtas)

Supper active like non stop scrolling down my feed 😂

And I saw a tweet

{% twitter 1278327765696159745 %}

>"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


![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/coi3qh7695mtos7payio.png)

### [QuickEdit](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.edit)


🎆**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

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/1b2fu9p6fjh513tk3tri.png)

### [Dcoder](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paprbit.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

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/9dp080ygva8u3lsp0omt.png)

### [Acode](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxdebug.acodefree)


🎆 **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

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ws6dnub7my373e1tol04.png)

### [SPCK](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.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]([https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paprbit.dcoder](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paprbit.dcoder)) is your man
    - Alternatively you can use [REPL]([https://repl.it/](https://repl.it/)) it's mobile friendly

    ⚠️ But I found out you can actually run your own terminal using [Termux](https://termux.com/)

    and can even install python

    Which will be another topic for another day

    👉[Follow me](https://dev.to/dylan_balagtas) to get update of that blog!

- Web Development
    - I'll go with [SPCK](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.spck) Editor
        - ✅ Its just like vscode in your phone
        - ✅ Also has Emmet!
        - ✅ Plus to add works offline!
        - ✅ Has web tools!

- Simple Editor
    - [Acode](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxdebug.acodefree) is your man
        - ✅ Just have better features
        - ✅ Like the extra toolbar for common movements
        - ✅ Intellisence 

# Tell me more if I missed any!