how to coding in PHP on Android ?

Coding in Php on Android

It turns out that coding in php on android is possible (even if its not as good as on a mac, linux or even windows). In this blog post I’ll go into some editors, IDE’s and other options for editing php code (and running a development LAMP stack) on your android devices.

Terminals

Hackers Keyword is a must, if not for anything else it has arrow keys to help you navigate. You aren’t going to get sublime text (or vs code) multi cursors, but you at least want direction arrows on your keyboard.

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termux is a must. If you have termux installed on your android device, then you can run ‘pkg install git’ to get your git command line utils. also ‘pkg install vim’ can help a ton too!

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Coding in php on android – git / scm / etc

openhub is a nice open source github client. It doesn’t let you directly clone repos, but it does let you copy the url so you can clone the repo form a terminal (see termux above) and you can browse commits, etc from inside the app.

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Coding in php on android – PHP/ CSS / JS editors

AWD

AWD has support for syntax highlighting – I tried briefly on my multiloquent project (php, css, sass, less and js) and it seemed to recognise each filetype. I couldn’t find a way to ‘jump to definition (F12 in vs-code, or ctrl+click in sublime3)’ so I cant really say this is ready for full time production/operations in a web development agency, but it will be enough to save you if you are on the road and only have your android phone / tablet and have to rush a hot-fix into staging!

AWD has syntax highlighting for css files, but unfortunately doesn’t support less files (I didn’t try sass files, so your mileage may vary)

AWD also lets you clone from a git url, so if you are using AWD, you can clone directly into the app and start coding!

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droidedit

I like droidedit – it has a nice syntax highlight. it works with php files, it works with css files and it works with js files. I couldn’t get the ‘jump-to’ feature to work, but I couldn’t get it to work on AWD either. Droidedit doesn’t have a direct ‘clone from git’ feature that I could see, but I’m happy to run a couple of commands form the terminal each time I’m read for a commit anyway. I would say out of all the editors I tried, Droidedit is the one that I’ll keep around incase I need it.

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anWriter

While I couldn’t get the code completion feature to work in anWriter, it did tell me that it was only available in the pro version. Code highlighting was present, but I don’t think this would be good for your eyes after 6 hours of coding.