well ive been doing a lot of android work recently, and since ive got my phone i have been thinking about how fun deving would be on it on the go. I know its not super practical, but i think its doable.

my question:

would you use something similar to game maker on your phone or tablet?

Are you asking that editor and the engine is on the device, like you create the game on device, or a regular 2d engine for games?

I am working on a 2d engine myself, much like rpg-maker. Editors are so far php-based web apps, which theoritically can be used on mobile devices too.

editor and engine on the device i like your idea too it would be pretty much icon based only having you type in values, no real coding like the way you can make games without code with game maker (im much to lazy to write a text parser that has to read other peoples code and debug and whatnot and i think coding on a phone would be a bitch, and i also think that is an understatement)

You can create something like UDK kismet(connecting boxes with lines) for the scripting part, though that would still require a parser. It could be used well enough on a tablet.

I am going all Java right now, but for the sake of getting experience i am thinking of switching to NDK. (I already built a somewhat successful android app with java sdk, market link)
my engine, looks more like a framework than an engine for now.

I would be more interested in real programming on a tablet device.

if i had a tablet i'd consider it. unfortunately, i am poor.

although i might consider it anyways, if done right i might be able to pull it off on a smaller screen. i could just have scaled down icons, and the one your moving is scaled up in a small view port so you can read it easier.

and it'd definitely control the code a lot better and make parsing less debug worthy.