In 2021, I started building a mobile coding IDE because every coding app I tried on my phone felt like a toy.
Most were either syntax-highlighted text editors or learning apps. Useful for education, but not something you could comfortably build projects with.
I thought it would take a few months.
It ended up taking four years, nearly 100,000 Android downloads, and a complete rebuild in Flutter before I finally launched on iPhone.
Today, the Android version of Code IDE is approaching 100,000 downloads, and I recently rebuilt the entire application in Flutter and launched on iPhone from the same codebase.
