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I tried coding on my iPad for 7 days

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coding on a tablet like an ipad might

seem impossible back in the day but

these days there are tools and apps out

there that really challenge this

assumption so

i wanted to see if it's possible to set

up my ipad as my dedicated machine for

everything from coding to checking

emails to making websites and even

building apps

this is something that i was always

interested in ever since i was able to

get vs code set up on my iphone to start

coding

i did that video up here you can check

out but this is taking it to another

level

it's making sure that i don't have to

switch between my computer my laptop my

devices

because that can become a hassle

sometimes and having just a single

device for everything could be really

cool

but i don't know if i can even do this

so let's find out the first thing i did

was jump on my ipad to see if there are

any existing apps

i looked up terms like code editor and

it actually came up with quite a few

the problem was that a lot of them

require you to ftp into the machine to

be able to edit i don't want that that

seems too difficult but since there

weren't any other solutions i gave it a

try i'm using an

app called coder code editor which has

ftp and a couple of other features which

we'll check out

i have over 100 websites i managed so i

created an ftp account and logged in and

i failed to log in over and over until i

figured out i had caps lock on

ftp is never my favorite thing but when

i finally got it working i was pretty

happy as any good developer the very

first thing i did was turn on dark mode

now i can actually take a look at what

it's like trying to code

on my ipad and the first thing i found

out is that

it's actually not that easy while

normally i'm pretty good at touch typing

typing on an ipad and trying to do some

code on there just doesn't work very

well

after getting frustrated i gave up on it

pretty quickly and moved over to using

the apple magic

keyboard for ipad and while this

keyboard or case is pretty much as heavy

as the ipad i'm ready to go

i'm going to give this a solid test by

actually doing some development on a

wordpress site where i'm putting

together a custom form that's going to

email some information

now when i was testing this out i did

notice a few things

the first is actually it was quite

useful to be able to code and touch

on the screen where i wanted my cursor

to go but one thing that was a little

bit annoying was switching between

windows

because it just didn't feel very

intuitive and maybe that's just because

i haven't gotten used to it just yet

i did try doing a split screen that's

where you have the browser on one side

and the code on the other

but the problem with that is that you

just don't have much real estate to work

with

and sometimes switching between each one

also has a bit of an issue where the

touch just doesn't work

but after a bit of trial and error i

sort of got it to work and i don't mind

it either

it's another day and i had a suggestion

from a friend to use my tablet to remote

into

my home computer there's great apps for

this like teamviewer and others

and having a look i noticed that

teamviewer actually has quite a few bad

reviews so i decided to try something

different out

i found one called jump desktop and this

is an application which had some really

good

five-star reviews it requires me to

install a small application on the

computer as well as the tablet but once

it's done it's pretty much a one-click

access my desktop computer immediately

it had a number of cool features like

being able to run at 60fps

over the local network it's faster and

over the internet it works pretty good

too

and in terms of having a look at this i

can immediately run up vs code and

continue my coding

exactly where i left off when i was

working from home

now i should essentially be able to just

pick up my laptop and work from anywhere

so i just went to the kitchen and gave

it a shot and when i tried it out then

yes

it was actually much better than using

an ftp program and being able to use my

computer

being able to jump desktop into my

favorite computer which is my home

computer

where i have everything set up the way i

like is awesome

then i can pretty much have vs code

running on the ipad

with virtualization on my favorite

browsers or my environment ready to go

doesn't matter where i am i'm going to

try this out over a few days and see how

i find it

and let you guys know using remote

desktop over a couple of days

at different locations to do different

tasks i found it very useful

being able to simply remote to my main

computer no matter

where i am is like having a powerhouse

in my pocket my tablet was performing

the stuff that i normally would do in

terms of building applications and

writing code

all in the fingertips of just the ipad

which normally wouldn't be able to do

this

it was fast and quick and to be honest i

don't even need a mouse the keyword's

enough because all the applications like

vs code have hotkeys enabled

and the only drawback that i was feeling

was that the screen size

was still a little bit small with the

resolution sometimes not fitting in all

the windows that i really wanted

what i learned yesterday is that

essentially this ipad while being good

is pretty much impossible to use without

a keyboard so it's looking more like i

need something that's very similar to a

laptop

but as i move forward and do more

development on it i also found that the

screen is a little bit too small

so i'm going to try and connect it up to

a bigger monitor

using this cable that i got just over

here and this

is just a usbc to hdmi cable

and what it's going to let me do is

connect up this ipad to a 49 inch

samsung screen i don't even know if this

will work but let's also try and see if

it will

so the moment of truth let's connect up

the cable

and see what happens well looks like

that worked

but not the way i expected i

did get my ipad working on my samsung

screen but the resolution wasn't quite

right

it was either too stretched or cropped

from the left and right side

but that's okay i did figure out a

resolution that works

which was just about a 2.5 k but

with that resolution i can do some of my

work now

and while this is probably an

improvement it sort of defeats the

purpose of using an ipad

when i could just use my own computer

now i've done this for about a week now

and the results are quite surprising

to be honest i thought at the very start

that i wouldn't be able to do it

i was a little bit skeptical of whether

it would even be practical

but once i figured out that i could do

remote desktop straight into my computer

then using the tablet as the main device

at least when going out was quite

practical

yes the keyboard might be missing some

of the functionality like the f1 keys

but if you do take a keyboard along

it pretty much covers everything that i

need to do that i would normally do on a

laptop

so i wouldn't even need to take my

laptop with me the only issues that i

really had were sort of like

missing out on the mouse but i don't

really use the mouse that often and

the screen size was a little bit small

but you can get used to that

yes if you're doing responsive design

then having a

browser cannot be done in a chrome

window

or a safari window on the ipad but if

your remote desktop in

then you basically have full control

with devtools so all of those features

come across

and you can start using and programming

and coding just like you would normally

the other part is that with the ipad i

did like the ability of using the touch

screen

to be able to tap where i'm writing my

code or check what i'm doing on the

browser

so that actually did improve my workflow

a tiny bit and that was a surprising

thing i didn't think i'd be doing

but otherwise this was a heaps fun

experience let me know if this is

something that you guys enjoyed because

if it is i'd love to do more tests like

this to

try out how we can test the boundaries

of how we traditionally do coding and

maybe mix it up a little bit otherwise

i'll see you in the next one

see ya

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