This application is designed to enhance coding and development workflows by supporting URLs for "Liveshare" and "Tunnel" features. It integrates seamlessly with the UCoW App by allowing users to switch over and share remote sessions effortlessly. This facilitates collaborative coding and remote development, making it an efficient tool for developers working in distributed teams or who need remote access to their coding environments.
The app fully supports all editing features provided by UCoW, including the use of predefined and global keyboard shortcuts. Unlike typical browser limitations, this means users can leverage all shortcuts within their coding sessions, providing a more efficient and familiar coding experience. This capability ensures that development workflows are smooth and uninterrupted, especially during complex coding tasks.
To improve usability, the app introduces a custom Keybar that contains multiple on-screen shortcuts. Notably, it features an innovative "cursor control stick" integrated into the virtual keyboard, allowing users to move the cursor precisely without using a mouse or trackpad. This feature is especially beneficial on touch devices like iPads, where traditional cursor control might be limited or less intuitive.
Key features include access to all keyboard shortcuts needing a physical keyboard, an extra on-screen keybar with many shortcuts, optimized performance on iPad, quick switching between multiple code-server instances, enhanced trackpad support, multi-instance and window management, and support for zooming and scaling the editor. For users of self-hosted or cloud development platforms such as Code-server, Gitpod, GitHub Codespaces, Jupyter Notebooks, JetBrains Projector, and Stackblitz, there is a related Basic App called "UCoW - The Ultimate Code Wrapper." It is recommended to use an external keyboard for better selection functionality in VSCode, as touch cursor selection is not currently supported. This app functions as a wrapper tool and is not officially affiliated or endorsed by Microsoft Corporation.