[HN Gopher] Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android
___________________________________________________________________
Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android
Author : coolcoder613
Score : 62 points
Date : 2025-09-25 00:28 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (rustroid.is-a.dev)
(TXT) w3m dump (rustroid.is-a.dev)
| hobs wrote:
| Damn, I don't have much to say but good work kid. That's an
| insane amount of work on your own tooling, some of the most
| satisfying stuff I generally work on.
| iberator wrote:
| Amazing. I'm also a sole mobile code with an external bluetooth
| keyboard. Termux, tmux and vim.
|
| But I'm homeless It's painful...
| johnisgood wrote:
| Do people seriously code on their phone without any keyboards?
| Are IDEs in demand for phones?
|
| (It is not intended to be an insult of any sort. It is a serious
| question. I do not know anyone who does this and I cannot imagine
| myself being productive at all. I want to compare WPMs on a
| keyboard vs. on a phone as well.)
| pjmlp wrote:
| On good modern tablets you can nicely use the pen, and is
| almost as I used to do offline programming on paper netbooks,
| with the difference, now I can actually execute them, instead
| of coming home and type everything into the PC.
| johnisgood wrote:
| Interesting. I cannot imagine myself being any productive. I
| typically just write down my thoughts and ideas on my phone
| when I am not nearby my PC.
| pjmlp wrote:
| I usually have fun on the go between C# Shell, Pydroid 3
| and ShaderBox.
| GZGavinZhao wrote:
| I could be wrong, but I recall in many developing countries
| phones there are many teenagers who code on their phone because
| laptops (even tablets) are prohibitively costly.
|
| They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards,
| which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing
| that.
|
| A friend of mine from a SEA country learned/did all of his
| coding on a 10-inch Android tablet using the touch-screen
| keyboard since age 11 until his parents bought him a proper
| laptop as a gift for going to college.
|
| Edit: for example
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286044, there are other
| cases that I've definitely seen on GitHub but I can't find them
| at this moment.
| johnisgood wrote:
| Hmm, I see. Of course if I had no choice like those people, I
| would rather pick "coding uncomfortably on a phone" over "not
| coding at all".
| jlg23 wrote:
| > I could be wrong, but I recall in many developing countries
| phones there are many teenagers who code on their phone
| because laptops (even tablets) are prohibitively costly.
|
| Yes, I see that a lot here in the far south of Morocco.
|
| > They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap
| keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if
| they're doing that.
|
| They do. Adapters are about $2.
| giancarlostoro wrote:
| Why do that when bluetooth keyboards are cheap these days
| too? For like $11 you can get a bluetooth keyboard, which
| would most likely just work...
|
| I could also see some of them using a cheap tablet for the
| larger screen, but I've also run into teens who use their
| phones exclusively.
| VoidWhisperer wrote:
| It may be $11 here in the US, but it might be harder to
| get and more costly in a developing nation. In which
| case, if it is easier to get that $2 adapter and an
| e-waste keyboard, that likely makes sense for them
| nicoburns wrote:
| > They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap
| keyboards, which is technically possible
|
| Not just possible, but quite easy. You just plug it in (or
| connect it via bluetooth) same as with a computer.
| sdeframond wrote:
| I sometimes plug my phone to a screen with a keyboard. It is
| not as good as a "real" computer but most everyday thing can be
| done (sending mails, browsing the web, editing spreadsheets).
|
| I never tried programming on it but I can imagine a world where
| the only computer i own fits in my pocket.
| johnisgood wrote:
| I would go with a phone that has a keyboard, or with a
| powerful phone and just use a Bluetooth keyboard. Might be
| some mini keyboard (my fingers are small).
| giancarlostoro wrote:
| I have a friend who works a normal 9 to 5 and codes from his
| phone at his full time job when there's down time.
|
| I've also met in programming discords various younger
| developers who write code from the only computing device they
| have access to: their phones.
| QQ00 wrote:
| you would be surprised, but many people do programming on their
| phones. I can't imagine the pain to do that though, PC is way
| more flexible to do programming on.
| charcircuit wrote:
| >I want to compare WPMs on a keyboard vs. on a phone as well
|
| WPM is not the bottleneck in coding, especially now in the age
| where AI agents now do the coding for you.
| stefanka wrote:
| Will it run on the Quest headset? It'd be nice to develop rust
| extensions for Godot in a real IDE. Price seems fair to me too.
| Will there be a means to test the software first?
| NooneAtAll3 wrote:
| is it offline?
|
| I remember for a while the only rust-writing app on play market
| simply called home to compile your stuff there
| fitblipper wrote:
| This could fit in well with the Pixel's upcoming desktop mode or
| Samsung DeX. Hopefully Google keeps developing desktop mode to
| make it more usable.
| nh43215rgb wrote:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammedkh...
| tommica wrote:
| The backstory is fricking amazing! It really shows how much pure
| will just allows a person to do stuff.
| AbuAssar wrote:
| Impressive work for a 17 years old guy, well done!
| skeptrune wrote:
| There is an untapped market for phone-oriented IDEs. It's a super
| convenient way to code when you're out of the office or on the
| go.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2025-09-28 23:00 UTC)