The setup used in this demo includes an iPad Air (2020) paired with a magic keyboard and trackpad (see the picture above). The first part of this blog post demonstrates the result, while the second one dives deeper into technical details. Instead of hosting it, we can run it alongside Android Studio on a VM and connect to it using a VNC client. Hosting emulators on iOS is also not possible without jailbreaking the device or sideloading applications. To my knowledge, there is no way of running an ADB server on iOS, killing off chances for connecting an Android phone directly to an iPad. However, the mobile dev loop is incomplete without running the app in an emulator or a physical device.
Since Projector draws UI in a browser, your favorite IDE becomes available anywhere, including iPads. Essentially, Projector allows running IntelliJ-based IDEs, such as Android Studio, on a remote machine with a lot of computing power.
It got me thinking about the experience of building mobile apps on tablets, especially the workflow with emulators/simulators.Ī couple of months ago, I came across the blog post of Joaquim Verges that showed how Projector could be used to enable remote IDE experience. After Apple has announced M1 for iPads, people started speculating that we will see “pro” apps like Xcode announced for iPadOS during the upcoming WWDC.
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