Build android apps from your Android device

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41 points·DallaRosa··8 comments

That's really cool. I wonder if those guys read RFS5? http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html

Sweet! Definitely installing this on my Transformer tonight, hopefully with the hard keyboard it could actually be pretty productive.

I've tried it with the soft keyboard and it worked pretty good, specially because of the auto-completion feature.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670137

I'd like to compete with the intent to found a startup. I know how to make this even better, I think.

Wow, this looks really neat. I'd be curious to know if this ends up being used as the preferred development environment for some Android developers.

Next step: Eclipse/Xcode for Android/iOS

I wonder if I could do this on my Galaxy Note.. Currently stuck on gingerbread until Robbers in Canada released an ICS update. Upgrading myself leaves me without the Android market..

Anyone else stuck in my boat? I'd love to try this out

There's another project called TerminalIDE here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spart...

that also allows you to develop real android apps right on your device. TerminalIDE is primarily cli based and even comes with a version of vim already set up with a custom vimrc and relevant plugins. That said, I'm very excited about this project as Android is capable of being a "real" OS it just needs more real applications.

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