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Discussion on: How to get Visual Studio Code to run on Android with Termux -- Mar 2023 Update

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Morrison Chang

Android Studio != VS Code. I haven't tried VHEditor so I don't know how well it works. What I described worked for me, but I also know that not all plugins and extensions will work. I also don't know what tablet you are using, running what version of Android, and how much free memory you have.

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carlotamburin • Edited

I am running on android 10, Samsung galaxy tab a7 10.4, 3GB of ram. The problem is that I can install the earlier version of code server 1.4.1 and I am running it now. But for example I couldn't install latest Python extension on it cause it says it needs newer version of visual code. So I manually downloaded VIX file of extension for my 1.4.1 version and it works. I am fine working on it but just wondering why I can't run the newest 1.5.0 version. I tried all possible methods on internet and only one worked for me and It's also from dev.to portal from publisher Josias Aurel. It method included installing ubuntu in terminal and using that method it works for me but no luck if I clone newer from the same github.

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Morrison Chang

Update my instructions above. You may have to 'yarn global remove' to make sure that code-server is built/linked against latest versions. But as of now I've got code-server VS Code 1.50.0 running on my Samsung Galaxy S9, Android 10 in Termux.