[desipenguin]

It is fine to install emacs on an android device, but I can't imagine doing any "keyboard" intensive work on a tiny screen. I've, in past, installed Vim-touch, just for the sake of it. But I almost NEVER used it (beyond first few minutes to make sure "it works")

[rwmj]

External bluetooth keyboard makes it bearable.

Keyboards vary to the extent that they are emacs friendly (how many Super-Meta-Alt keys do they have?) but I find this Logitech one just about usable for programming:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Device-Bluetooth-Keyboard-S...

(In case it's not clear, the keyboard is huge, as large as a laptop keyboard, so once you start down this road you lose portability).

[desipenguin]

Once you lose portability, why not just use "real" computer ;) (I mean laptop) Entering text of smallish screen is only meant for small amount of text (a tiny note etc.)

[rwmj]

I'm not going to disagree with you :-) However I do also have a sort of compromise, which is my Nexus 9 with the folio keyboard. It folds up into something similar to the size and weight of a paperback book. It's not-so-bad for ssh (I wouldn't really want to program with it), one thing missing would be good key mappings to deal with my odd choice of 'screen' settings.

Photo here: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/nexus-9-ssh-on-the-go/...

[arm]

This is absolutely perfect for my use case though (running Remix OS¹ on a Remix Mini²).

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¹ — http://www.jide.com/remixos

² — http://www.jide.com/mini

[fsiefken]

Hi Arm, that's a great combination. You might also want to check Linux Deploy to mount a full linux distro (and ssh or vnc into) running with the Android kernel.