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Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android
- hobs 1y agoDamn, 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.
- MohammedKHC 1y agoThanks!
- iberator 1y agoAmazing. I'm also a sole mobile code with an external bluetooth keyboard. Termux, tmux and vim. But I'm homeless It's painful...
- johnisgood 1y agoDo 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.)
- resonious 1y agoI seriously code on my phone with a keyboard. I do so without as well, but in that case I'm usually relying heavily on a cli ai agent.
- pjmlp 1y agoOn 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 1y agoInteresting. 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 1y agoI usually have fun on the go between C# Shell, Pydroid 3 and ShaderBox.
- GZGavinZhao 1y agoI 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 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 1y agoHmm, 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 1y ago> 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 1y agoWhy 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 1y agoIt 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
- sdeframond 1y agoI 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 1y agoI 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 1y agoI 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 1y agoyou 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.
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- charcircuit 1y ago>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.
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- overhead4075 1y agoI code on my phone using termux, tmux, nvim, and Unexpected Keyboard (no physical keyboard) on an Android phone. Vim style modal editing is actually really well suited to this kind of development. It lets me work on my hobbies while I commute, travel, or am otherwise idle and is a nice alternative to scrolling social media or consuming content. With git, I can just sync my changes and work from a PC when I can/want to.
- ipaddr 1y agoI use to program on my HP Jornada. On a smartphone its not bad there is one old editor with sftp/ftp support in the android store.
- anonzzzies 1y agoI am coding on an android tablet with a keyboard, so I hope more ides get released. Until I can run Linux on my tablets of choice, not much else can be done.
- johnisgood 1y agoCoding with a keyboard is a must for me. Whether it is through the phone or PC, it does not matter much[1], just give me the keyboard! :D [1] Actually it does matter for some things, like compilation time or performance of the program which I would do on a real computer, which I could do through SSH-ing on my phone to a PC.
- DashAnimal 1y agoYes! Recently came across a profilic Neovim plugin developer who used their phone for development: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hay1z3/developer_wrote_25k_lines_of_neovim_plugin_code/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hay1z3/develo... Meanwhile, i struggle to be efficient on my 13 inch screen
- nh43215rgb 1y agohttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammedkhc.ide.rust https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammedkh...
- tommica 1y agoThe backstory is fricking amazing! It really shows how much pure will just allows a person to do stuff.
- stefanka 1y agoWill 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 1y agois it offline? I remember for a while the only rust-writing app on play market simply called home to compile your stuff there
- MohammedKHC 1y agoYes! Although if you want to build/run a project with dependencies you would need to download the dependencies first. (As expected.)
- fitblipper 1y agoThis 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.
- ZhiqiangWang 1y agoI feel people gonna cry “please stop rusting things”
- pylotlight 1y agoEspecially when it says: "I discovered that Rust is the most admired language." Err no?
- MohammedKHC 1y agoWell, that's what Stack Overflow Surveys says.. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology/#2-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology/#2-programmi... Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of sticking to a single language. Every language has it's own use cases.
- MohammedKHC 1y agoI feel like it's going to be "Stop running everything on phones." :) Jokes-aside you should not use a single programming language for everything. Every language have pros and cons. And another reason that made be choose rust is the fact that there was no IDEs for rust in Android at all. (There were some IDEs for python, cpp, [Although not with all the features that Rustroid supports :) ])
- AbuAssar 1y agoImpressive work for a 17 years old guy, well done!
- skeptrune 1y agoThere 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.
- wasabinator 1y agoThis is brilliant. I happily bought it due to how nice and well thought out this is as well as the fascinating write up. I actually see a lot of legitimate situations for when an idea pops in my head and I want to quickly try it out when I only have my phone on me. I tried the egui sample and get a link error but will look more closely at why. One initial thought i would have is to make the swipe down to dismiss terminal gesture less aggressive as one often needs to scroll back the build output a fair bit.
- ccgallo 1y agoVery nice, good job!