Due to the pandemic I find myself, as I'm sure lots of you as well, doing remote pairing or mobbing ...

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[pajatopmr]

Due to the pandemic I find myself, as I'm sure lots of you as well, doing remote pairing or mobbing sessions. Zoom + IntelliJ give very mixed results when sharing a screen. My results have been deplorable with my keystrokes just not working or doing strange things entirely. I've had much better success with VSCode (I am truly sorry to say) but VSCode with Kotlin is still very early days especially for quickly spotting errors or suspect code. For that IntelliJ cannot be beat. But VSCode has Live Share which makes collaborating very easy and makes my keystroke issues gone. I even can use Emacs keybindings and still work flawlessly with others. So all this boils down to two questions: 1) has anyone figured out how to use Kotlin and VSCode that puts it on a par with IntelliJ for basic development (detect and show error/warnings and run tests); 2) has anyone figured out how to pair/mob remotely with Kotlin seamlessly?

[gvetri]

I’ve been doing pair programming with my team using screen.so and Android Studio and we are happy with it 😄.

[pajatopmr]

Excellent, I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

[psh]

Our company uses TeamViewer for remote pairing / screen sharing.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Some people I work with are using UseTogether.

[Mike]

You can check this out. I have no experience with it, just remember reading about it.

https://floobits.com/help/plugins/intellij

[Mike]

Hmmm. Floobits requires an account, and it sounds like it uploads code to their servers. So may not be a good option after all?