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Depends on what you are trying to make, web app that is tested primarily on firefox is probably the easiest.
If it compiles on Linux desktop it can compile on a phone too, although only tried that a couple times with CLI stuff so far.
I think this should be the biggest selling point of both devs out there, but also users, since it's crossover from desktop to your phone is so Smooth. Would be epic if you could have a linux os, that cross syncs to both you phone, tablet and phone via local wifi or something.
My Linux PC does sync data to my phone already. Linux and Android. Though file permissions are better on Linux, easier to setup properly.
What do you use for this?
Rsync
And you can costomize which folders etc. You wanna sync, browser data etc?
If I want to browse files on another device I use SSH. Rsync will sync what ever I tell it to.
Syncthing does synchronize the Documents directory between my phone (LineageOS), laptop (Windows) and netbook (Debian) over the phone's Wi-Fi access point. IIRC this is discouraged by Android security model so might only work temporarily. However, for me it's very useful.