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Re:Ask HN: What is a good phone for to write code on? by davelnewton on Friday May 11, 2018 @04:27PM (#17050572)
None. Even tablets are considerably less than optimal (believe me, I've been trying for years now). Nothing on iOS has been suitable (caveat: I have not tried in the last six months), Android offerings tend to be better.

Java is even worse than some of the other options because of the syntactic noise: too many special characters are required in too many places.

At best you could do some limited code generation if you used some GUI-oriented block mechanism (e.g., Blockly that outputs Java code), but phone displays are small even for that limited form of interaction.

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