Can I use Visual Studio to develop Sharepoint Online workflows on existing site lists?

I've been using Sharepoint Designer to develop workflows in Sharepoint 2013 on Office 365, but hitting limitations. I would like, for example, to be able to trigger a workflow when a list item is deleted.
Perhaps naively I thought Visual Studio should be able to help. I've read of useful things like Remote Event Receivers - sounds exactly what I need. I've used VS before for Windows desktop applications in VB, so downloaded a trial version of VS 2013.
Now I'm having doubts. It looks like I can create a Sharepoint App on a development site and create lists and workflows within it, but I can't access my existing lists to do anything more sophisticated than I already can in SPD. Is that right?
I was expecting to be able to enter my Sharepoint site URL into Visual Studio somewhere, just like in SPD, and do wonderful things with my lists - but unless I'm missing something, that's not possible.
Have I just got it completely wrong??!

Hi,
yes you can check those links
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharatgupta/archive/2013/04/27/sharepoint-2013-app-workflow-with-custom-task-outcomes-in-o365.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj164126.aspx
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/sharepoint-online-integrated-workflow-apps-workflows-as-apps-in-the-hostweb
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/jj220043.aspx
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