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Title: 60% keyboard viable for developing Mobile Apps?
Post by: therue on Tue, 16 February 2016, 01:15:14

I am planning on buying a 60% keyboard for web development in linux using Vim as the editor of choice, but I do have plans in the future to start learning about mobile app development so I was wondering if anyone might have experience with apple's Xcode, or android's Android Studio and whether a 60% keyboard is viable for them or not? or if they have lot of keys or shortcuts that might make a 60 keyboard too much of a hassle to use?

Title: Re: 60% keyboard viable for developing Mobile Apps?
Post by: philphilphil on Tue, 16 February 2016, 01:55:37

I can speak of my experience with XCode and Visual Studio on a Pok3r: At first its for sure unfamiliar but you get a hang of it pretty fast. For example while debugging, in VS "Step Into" is F11. On my previous keyboard my fingers had to go all the way up to the F11 key, now i just press Capslock+- and don't really have to move my hands to much. In Xcode its even easier because most of the shortcuts are just cmd+x so you mostly don't even need the function key there.
The biggest thing for me was learing to use the arrow keys.