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Install Visual Studio Code (Actually Code-Server) On Android

This document provides instructions for installing Visual Studio Code on an Android device using Termux. It involves installing Termux, dependencies like Python and NodeJS, and then code-server which runs VS Code as a web app. Some additional steps fix issues with dependencies like spdlog and ripgrep. The user can then access VS Code from their browser by visiting localhost:8080 on their Android device or other devices on the same network.

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Install Visual Studio Code (Actually Code-Server) On Android

This document provides instructions for installing Visual Studio Code on an Android device using Termux. It involves installing Termux, dependencies like Python and NodeJS, and then code-server which runs VS Code as a web app. Some additional steps fix issues with dependencies like spdlog and ripgrep. The user can then access VS Code from their browser by visiting localhost:8080 on their Android device or other devices on the same network.

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Install Visual Studio Code (actually code-server) on Android

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Install Termux, an Android terminal emulator that provides a Linux execution


environment and various tools.

Update system packages in Termux:

$ pkg update -y

Install dependencies, including python, nodejs, and yarn:

$ pkg install -y python nodejs yarn git

Install code-server, an adaptation of Visual Studio Code that runs as a web app
using the following command. The installation may take a while:

$ yarn global add code-server

Before starting code-server, we are going to fix an error caused by spdlog, which
is a dependency of Visual Studio Code. First, change your working directory to
~/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/:

$ cd ~/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/

You will need a text editor for the next step. Here Vim is used for this task, but
you are free to use whatever text editor you love:

$ pkg install vim

Open binding.gyp and enter edit mode. You can do this by pressing i once you open
the file using Vim:

$ vim binding.gyp

Add "libraries": [ "-latomic" ] below "target_name": "spdlog",. This helps spdlog


compile on Android.

"targets": [{
"target_name": "spdlog",
+ "libraries": [ "-latomic" ],
"sources": [
"src/main.cc",
"src/logger.cc"
],

Save the file and quit text editor. You can do this by pressing ESC and then wq in
Vim:

Recompile spdlog using the following command:

$ npm install

(Optional) To see if spdlog works, run:

$ npm test

To fix the file search function of code-server, install ripgrep via pkg and link it
to the correct place:
$ pkg install ripgrep -y
$ cd ~/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/vscode-
ripgrep/bin
$ ln -s $(which rg) .

Finally, change the working directory back to home and start code-server with the
following command:

$ cd ~
$ code-server --auth none --disable-telemetry

Now, you can open your browser and visit code-server at http://localhost:8080.

(Bonus) If you wish to visit this code-server from another device in the same local
network, you can expose the HTTP service to all network interfaces by starting
code-server with --bind-addr:

$ code-server --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:8080 --disable-telemetry

You can find the password under ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml:

$ cat ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml

You may also need to enable HTTPS to enable clipboard and others features of Visual
Studio Code in browsers. To do this, install openssl-tool and let code-server
generate a certificate on startup:

$ pkg install openssl-tool


$ code-server --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:8080 --cert --disable-telemetry

You can get the public IP address of your device using the command below in Termux:

$ ifconfig

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