roxum-ide

Roxum IDE

Roxum IDE is a mobile-first code editor and mini IDE for Android, built with Flutter. It combines editing, terminal workflows, Git/GitHub tooling, AI assistance, runtime downloads, and deep customization in one app.

Roxum uses the powerful code_forge package as the editor engine.

[!NOTE] The current version has several issues and is quite bulky for non-playstore users.

The upcoming v3.0.0 release aims to address these issues. However, some planned changes may conflict with Google Play policies. Consequently, future versions of Roxum may move from the Play Store to F-Droid and GitHub Releases.

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rox – The Roxum Package Manager

• Install a wide range of Linux tools instead of being restricted to predefined compilers.
• This approach may conflict with Google Play policies.

Custom Extension Support

• Build custom extensions, similar to VS Code.
• Install extensions developed by other users through the in-app extension store.
• Lua will be the extension scripting language, similar to Neovim.

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Feature list:

• Completely free and open source.
• Built-in Termux support for using Termux as a backend.
• Download or load local GGUF LLM models for offline chat and code completion.
• Offline compilers and extensions for popular languages.
• 245 built-in themes and, an option for creating custom themes.
• Built-in terminal.
• A powerful editor backend using rope and sum tree data structures, similar to the zed editor.
• AI Code Completion.
• LSP support (suggesions, completions, error highlighting, hover info, etc).
• Git and Github intergration.
• SSH support for connecting with remote systems.
• Intergrate with external AI providers for agentic editing.

What's new in 2.11.0:

• Enhanced code execution
• Roxum's built-in Markdown engine has been migrated to GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM).
• Fixed file opening bugs.

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If playstore isn't accessible in your country:

Download the full apk from releases

OR

Build from source

This section is intended for users from countries like China where the Play Store isn't accessible. Otherwise, it is recommended to download the full-featured APK from the Play Store as mentioned above.

Clone this repo, then:

Make sure that git-lfs is installed in your system and accessible via the path. Don't skip this step; the compilers and interpreters are stored in the GitHub large file storage.

1) Build the app as an aab bundle.

[!NOTE]

To include all compilers, interpreters and extensions in the build, we build it as a standalone aab file, which is bigger compared to the APK downloaded from the Play Store. The Play Store build is smaller because these external dependencies are downloaded on demand when the user requests the particular compiler/interpreter/extension.

Make sure to install necessary Flutter and Android development tools before starting.

With flutter

flutter run

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OR

With gradlew

cd android && ./gradlew -Ptarget-platform=android-arm64 :app:bundleRelease

This will generate the output file in build/app/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.aab

2) Creating APK from AAB

To install aab in your device, it needs to be converted to apk first. For that, download the latest bundletool from the official repo: https://github.com/google/bundletool/releases

Then build the APK:

java -jar path/to/bundletool.jar build-apks --bundle=your_app/build/app/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.aab --output=output.apks --mode=universal

This will generate a file called output.apks in the current directory

3) Then install the apks:

Make sure that you are connected to an emulator or physical device via adb.

java -jar /path/to/bundletool.jar install-apks --apks=output.apks

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Special Thanks ♥️

• @MaximoMachado — helped fund the Play store release.