What do you think about a mobile version of ecode?

[Curculigo]

iOS/Android version of ecode.

p/s: If you don't think ecode on small screen devices like the mobile phones is viable, what about large screen devices like tablets?

[SpartanJ]

I think it would be a waste of time, but ecode actually runs on mobile, I just don't build it. The reason I think that is that it's not designed for mobile or tablets in any sense, focusing resources on that would distract me over more important objectives and I don't see any good reason to focus on mobile / tablets, they're not meant to be used for programming, no matter how much effort you put, the platform will be crap for development, so why even try? ecode relies very heavily on external tools also, which is not possible to consume on mobile / tablets, so in short: i don't see any good reason to use the limited time I have to support a platform that I'll never use and actually I personally dislike (mobile OSes are awful).

[yh15kla9]

Android has Termux where you can install most if not all development tools you normally found on Linux. There are ways to install a full Linux distribution like Arch, too. So the lack of development tools is not a problem.

[yh15kla9]

If the smart phones are too small and the tablets are not large enough, what about TV? I would love to have ecode running on my TV. But I admit I'm stupid. I only use Netflix and YouTube apps on my TV. I don't even know how to install a third-party package!

[SpartanJ]

 Android has Termux where you can install most if not all development tools you normally found on Linux. There are ways to install a full Linux distribution like Arch, too. So the lack of development tools is not a problem.

It's a problem, it's not possible to consume Termux from a different application namespace. Termux is an application, not some random CLI tools I can consume. You would need to build Termux within ecode environment, that's a huge effort.

 If the smart phones are too small and the tablets are not large enough, what about TV? I would love to have ecode running on my TV. But I admit I'm stupid. I only use Netflix and YouTube apps on my TV. I don't even know how to install a third-party package!

TVs uses several different operating systems with very different environments. There are Android based OSes for TVs but also supporting some specific TV vendor does not make much sense to me, I'm the one who needs to maintain that and I don't see any justification to do it. There's really no reason to support them, if you want to use ecode on your TV, just use the HDMI port connected to a PC or stream it with the several streaming methods the different vendors provide.