There are a bunch of people using Chromebooks for dev, apparently. Some info on Reddit, and there was a thread on here where this came up a little while ago.
Nobody mentioned doing anything like Android development though; it was more "you can install VSCode and basic tooling natively on the Chromebook via its shell" or something
Thanks, I'll see if I can find that thead. Yeah, that's the main roadblock. Lightweight IDEs like VSCode can easily run on cheaper laptops, and as long as the compilation is done remotely, you're good to go.
But the Android Studio IDE itself is fairly heavy, and the compilation process is "ongoing" as you're writing code, with UI previews and things like that. It's not clear if there's an easy, free way to offload all of this processing from your local machine.
Nobody mentioned doing anything like Android development though; it was more "you can install VSCode and basic tooling natively on the Chromebook via its shell" or something