The Microsoft-owned GitHub coding repository service officially launched its GitHub Copilot Chat chatbot for developers and organizations in late December 2023. However, this service was limited to computers and the web. This week, GitHub revealed that GitHub Copilot Chat is now available on its iOS and Android mobile apps.
in a blog postGitHub stated:
With GitHub Copilot Chat natively integrated with GitHub Mobile, developers can access their AI coding assistant to get answers to all their coding questions, or even repositories and knowledge bases, from wherever they’re using mobile devices.
Developers who have a GitHub account can now download the iOS or the Humanoid GitHub app and sign in to their account. They will then need to obtain a GitHub Copilot Individual license if they don’t already have one, and this can be done directly in the mobile apps. Developers who access the service with a GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise license can ask their administrators to enable GitHub Copilot Chat in their mobile apps.
In addition to using GitHub Copilot Chat to get answers to coding questions, it also allows developers to have “conversations” with over 100,000 public repositories. GitHub says this will give developers more information about several different ways to code in their projects.
GitHub offers individual users access to its Copilot service for $10 per month or $100 per year, with a free trial. GitHub Business subscribers pay $19 per month per user for Copilot. In February, GitHub Copilot Enterprise was officially launched for its enterprise customers. The price is $39 per month per person.
At the end of April, a technical preview version of GitHub Copilot Workspace was revealed. This will add native access to Copilot in a developer environment so they can write code with it and still have full control over all aspects of their project. So far, there’s no word on when it will be generally available.