Visual Studio Code for ipad

[allessandrojs]

can use the Visual Studio Code on a ipad

[mittalyashu]

I don't think there is any native app build for iOS

[codingwesley]

I have the same question at buy iPad pro recently

[Disane87]

I guess there are too many limitations on iOS to get that actually work.

[chpxu]

VSCode runs on Electron and is a desktop framework, meaning it only runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. The iPad runs iOS, a mobile framework so it most likely wouldn't make it, unless the team are perhaps thinking of makng an installer

On that note, if it is the case perhaps and android version too since I use my MediaPad M5 a lot for working and consuming media :>

[allessandrojs]

I found this idea very good so I raised this question, the link shows an example

https://medium.com/@igorandreev/how-to-code-with-ipad-pro-make-your-2019-year-of-mobile-development-e4e678daab77

[allessandrojs]

electronjs create multiplatform applications even for ios, so i believe it works for ipad.

[sean256]

There are a ton of challenges to get this thing running and feature full on the iPad due to iOS limitation.

What about a lite version which could utilize VSCode's Live Share? Run the full version on a desktop to do all of the heavy lifting and file management but use the iPad to remote edit?

[hugheba]

Yeah, I’d love to see some sort of implementation as @sean256 suggested where I can use the horsepower of my desktop and all its abilities and work remotely on the iPad in the browser or an optimized app that supports special features needed for development like the ESC key.

[scottgrobinson]

@hugheba I'm about to try this one out https://github.com/cdr/code-server. Runs vscode on a remote server, then you can just use your browser. Seems intriguing....

[hugheba]

@scottgrobinson code-server Looks promising.

I installed it and tried to set it up for my iPad, a lot of thing didn’t work like adding workspaces from filesystem, sync plugin installing extensions, etc...

It seems like it creates a seperate install from the VSCode installation, so I have to set up my environment all over again, hence trying to get the settings sync plugin to work (unsuccessfully).

Seems they’re offering a paid product but doesn’t seem like the functionality is quite there yet.

[sean256]

iOS has a deal breaking bug for something like https://github.com/cdr/code-server to work.

Certain and critical key events are not fired for input/textarea fields (arrow keys, system keys). VSCode's editor at it's core depends on these missing key events. I tried a nasty hack where I would intercept i,j,k,l with the only working modifier (alt) events and rewrite the event to look like arrow keys. It's terrible but I did get the editor sort of working.

Apple needs to fix this. I sent an "angry rant" to an old friend of mine who works with the UIKit team so they know...

[seanhealy]

This could be very intriguing for iOS.

• https://twitter.com/bitandbang/status/1124017139717947392
• https://aka.ms/remote-development-blog

Still other framework things that would need to be solved but it is very cool.

[zweily]

As VS code already released the "remote development" extensions, it would be reasonable to have the VS code for iOS platform for the users that mostly work remotely via ssh to Linux server.
This would make iPad Pro users have a better IDE to work remotely.