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I am on a family trip and in the downtimes I would love to #gamedev and experiment.
I didnt bring my laptop because is cumbersome, specially when you travel in buses, trains and by foot.
I wonder, is there a good IDE that runs on Android? are there shells to transform my android phone into a small laptop? recomendations for good portable bluetooth keyboards?
@glaskows you might not like this answer but the smallest macbook air you can tolerate might be your best bet. Mobile OSs are just terrible at coding, there's nothing like a real OS. Plus the M1/M2 macs have unbeatable battery life.
@congusbongus My wife has one. While it is a nice compact machine, it is still a bit too big and I wouldnt feel comfortable dragging it around in a backpack.
I already have to carry this tiny computer (android phone), and I would love to expand it to a reasonable comfortable dev experience.
With an external battery it should last for days without a power plug.
@glaskows Seems like #GodotEngine fits what you're looking for. #Godot IDE is actually a godot games with Editor option in. The epitome of eating your own dog food or "dogfooding" 
And their can run on web, android, or toaster. jk
Desktop is the recommended though, some stuffs might not work on other platforms.
@0 This is interesting. I am trying it and found some usability problems when trying to navigate a scene and the editor theme seems to be stuck in the default grey which makes the panels borders the same color as the background.
But performance is better than expected. It feels like it would work with a bigger screen and a keyboard.
@glaskows You could also give board/physical games a try!
@glaskows if you have somewhat decent mobile internet access (heh, good luck with that in Germany), you could run parsec at your machine at home and remote into it from android (mouse + keyboard should be supported iirc).
@shinyshinken Yes, thats a def option, but I would love to not need a connection if possible.
@glaskows I remember that back in the day I managed to run Ubuntu on a rooted android phone.... (Inside a VM, so normal Android functionality was preserved). No idea if that's still possible today