Coding with your Android phone in this 21st century

“If you want to become a Software Developer, you must buy or own a laptop". Gosh! This word was like a wall of Jericho built around me when I began showing interest in web development. In as much as that statement is true. It is more becoming a cliché! In it’s entirety it is true that owning a laptop would make your work easier and it would reduce stress in making use of some functionalities, but that is just beckoning on real work and experience to come . I know this topic maybe a bit controversial and experts would be like “You don’t know what you are saying" . Can you use you phone to build APIs and the rest. And the list goes on and on….

Now, where am I going with this? This is what I mean. You do not need to have a laptop to actually start coding or building software. Ouch! We are not in 1985 when the internet was still known as APARNET .

Over the past 30 years developers, software and hardware engineers have this common goal in mind. If you ask me what that is . I would say it is COMPACTION. They want to make it easy for you to interact with any device without feeling physical strain on your body .

Believe me, in the next 20 years, we might not need a laptop again to build softwares. We might actually be using phones or probably watches. I said watches right? Yes watches.

Let me give you a brief example of myself. Actually, when I started coding I owned a laptop but along the line my laptop had a major issue and I had to abandon it . That was when I realized that I had my phone. Do you know what I continued from there. I could build databases, call functions right with coding on my phone!

Believe me it was not easy at first but with sheer determination I was able to build something. Besides the market value of a good laptop is on the high side so if you are not financially buoyant and you want to code then get a phone, at least it saves cost pending the time you would get a laptop

So as a budding software developer if you do not have a laptop and you have your Android phone you are good to dive right in the world of coding.

In my next post I would share some tips and links to get started with your phone.