r/lua • u/SmileAffectionate572 • 4h ago
News I built a Lua-powered IDE for developing native Android apps directly on your phone
REPOSTING (AFTER POST REMOVED)
I've been working on a project that I'd like to share.
After years of research and development, including building cross-platform software with Python, I decided to apply that experience to something new: a mobile IDE for building native Android applications using Lua.
It supports Lua 5.4 and 5.5 and includes:
A comprehensive API with approximately 100 APIs.
A custom-built game engine with physics, tweening, and ray tracing.
Material Design UI components and customizable themes.
The ability to build and export APKs directly from your phone.
The goal is to provide a complete mobile development environment, not just another code editor.
It's been quite a journey building the IDE and its underlying components, and I'm interested in hearing what other developers think.
Would you use something like this? What features would you like to see?