A new way to play "Codex app" on mobile!
The mobile "Codex app" essentially does not have a separate development environment, it is just the Codex remote console in the ChatGPT mobile phone.
Its new gameplay is mainly: you let the Codex app/remote devbox on the computer continue to work, and the phone is responsible for viewing, approving, changing direction, and supplementing instructions at any time.
Best for: - Out of office approval: When Codex runs to require permission, command confirmation, program selection, you click on the mobile phone to approve or change direction.
- Long task peering: such as refactoring, running tests, grabbing data, generating documents, fixing CI, you don't have to stay in front of the computer, you can watch the progress and results on your phone.
- Fragment time assignment: I think of a task on the way, open the Codex thread directly in the phone, and let the Mac/devbox start running first.
- review diff: see what files it changed, whether it has been tested, whether there is a failed output, and then decide whether to continue repair or stop.
- Remote context continuation: There are multiple Codex tasks open on the computer, and different hosts/threads are switched on the phone to add information to each task.
- Pre-Customer/Meeting Preparation: Have Codex organize summaries in local projects, documents, emails, flying book materials, and you read briefings or follow-up questions on your phone.
- Last check before release: people can also see the test results, release note, PR description, risk points outside.
But it is not suitable to do these things on a mobile phone: - Read a lot of code, edit line by line.
- Manually handle complex merge conflicts.
- Do high-risk production operations, such as deleting libraries, publishing, changing permissions.
- Complex projects from scratch.
This one is still comfortable on the desktop.
The mobile terminal Codex is regarded as a "portable dispatch console", not a "mobile phone IDE".
The real execution is still on the Mac/devbox/remote host, and the phone just keeps you from sitting in front of the computer waiting for it.
The most practical use is: open multiple long tasks on the computer during the day, use your mobile phone to approve, correct deviations, and look at diff after going out; when you come back at night, the tasks have run to a state where they can be merged or continue to be refined.
Remember to update both codex and chatgpt to the latest version.
Just scan the QR code on the codex app on the pc side of the gpt mobile terminal.