Better support for Remote Development #79

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fergalmoran · 2025-08-09T17:13:16Z

fergalmoran commented

2025-08-09 17:13:16 +00:00

Originally created by @chrisdjali-wrld3d on 3/25/2020

VS Code has a feature called remote development, which lets you edit a workspace on another machine which you can access over, for example, SSH. This is useful for situations like an international pandemic where developers are forced to work from home, but have things that work better on their office machines.

If you try and use it with this extension, it works reasonably okayish - starting a debugging session will do so on a device connected to the remote machine and seems to work with about the same reliability as if you aren't doing anything remotely. It's even possible to make stuff happen with an Android device that's in front of you by running ADB over the network so that the remote machine can see the local Android device.

However, doing that is pretty cumbersome, and very slow. It would be preferable if (potentially as an off-by-default option) the APK would be copied to the local machine and the debugger started from there.

I don't know how complicated this would actually be in reality, but if it suddenly appeared as a feature and worked mostly reliably, it would be greatly appreciated.

*Originally created by @chrisdjali-wrld3d on 3/25/2020* VS Code has a feature called remote development, which lets you edit a workspace on another machine which you can access over, for example, SSH. This is useful for situations like an international pandemic where developers are forced to work from home, but have things that work better on their office machines. If you try and use it with this extension, it works reasonably okayish - starting a debugging session will do so on a device connected to the remote machine and seems to work with about the same reliability as if you aren't doing anything remotely. It's even possible to make stuff happen with an Android device that's in front of you by running ADB over the network so that the remote machine can see the local Android device. However, doing that is pretty cumbersome, and very slow. It would be preferable if (potentially as an off-by-default option) the APK would be copied to the local machine and the debugger started from there. I don't know how complicated this would actually be in reality, but if it suddenly appeared as a feature and worked mostly reliably, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Reference: github/android-dev-ext#79