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Building Local Desktop used to mean juggling a lot of tools: x build in one terminal, adb logcat in another, a third-party debugger extension pinned to an old CodeLLDB, GitHub's Actions tab for builds, and a Google Chat room that nobody opened.

Today we're bringing all of it into one place: Local Desktop Dev, a VS Code extension that covers the whole loop, from pressing F5 to shipping a release. It also works in Cursor, VSCodium and other VS Code based editors.

Local Desktop started as my hobby project, now the contributors list looks a lot less lonely, and that genuinely makes me very happy 🥰🎗️🙏

A special thank you to:

• @EzeKoren for Docker-based APK builds 🐳
• @HugJax for better touch input and two-finger scrolling 👆
• @FBarrca for the keyboard accessibility service and a PRoot update ⌨️
• @ArcheoCodix for fixes around Onboard, PRoot PTYs, and Gradle 9 compatibility 🛠️

More people, more momentum, more fun 🚀 Once again, I'm truly grateful to everyone who stepped in to help Local Desktop grow 🌱

...on their phone

Pull request #170 added the ability to build localdesktop.apk directly on your phone. But why would we want to do that? As we want to support as many devices as possible, we'd like to call for more contributors. I believe Local Desktop's own users are the most motivated to become maintainers and contributors — and coding has always been the highest barrier to entry. However, with the rise of AI and agentic coding tools like Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and others, that barrier no longer exists. And with the ability to build an APK right on your phone, you don't need a PC or even any prior coding experience to contribute to this project.