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Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

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Re: Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

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Post by bsaul »

jgarnham wrote: post #25
objectiveariel wrote: post #16

It's a clever system: the app is really a text editor which sends the code you write to your Mac. Your Mac builds the app and sends the binary back to your iPad. Pros: * Code when you're on the move because... laptops haven't been invented yet? Cons: * You need an internet connection all the time. * No support for any version control system??? "Import your project from Dropbox and Dringend will handle syncing any cha…

Hi there, I'm the developer of this app so just thought I'd reply to some of the cons you made. You don't need an internet connection all the time, just simply for building or running the application as Dringend needs to connect to the build server. Support for git is coming up in version 1.2 and is going to be in the hands of beta testers very soon. Features such as support for asset catalogs and XIBs/Storyboards ar…

Xib / storyboard editing on the ipad would make a great app on its own. Great job.

Re: Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

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Post by AlfieHopkin »

I, myself believe that what this guy has achieved is brilliant. Just 2 years ago when I was 14 I released my first iOS game and there was an overwhelming show support for me which encouraged me to do more, I think this guy deserves the same! If he doesn't receive the support he needs he may never see an interest in it again, give him a break, I doubt most people get past 'Hello World' anyway.

The app is a brilliant idea and the possibilities are endless for what it could potentially be, well done and continue doing what you're doing! - Alfie

Re: Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

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Post by jgarnham »

dep_b wrote: post #39

Any particular reason why this app has the Dutch word for urgent as it's name?

It started out as a code name for the app and was chosen in particular because it meant urgent in Dutch/German. The idea was something I had wanted to work on for quite a while but I initially got sidetracked with other things and as it was something I wanted to get working on as soon as possible I picked the code name 'urgent' (Dringend).

Re: Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

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Post by enen »

MarcScott wrote: post #23

I'd like to point out that the developer of this application is 17 years old. He's a student at the school I work at and a fantastic programmer. I don't know whether he'd be annoyed at me for mentioning this or not, but given some of the negativity in the comments, I think it's worth noting. I can't imagine the type of applications he'll be developing in a few years time.

Thanks, I feel completely useless now. Wouldn't even know where to start with something like this.

Re: Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

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Post by HeshamA »

robotresearcher wrote: post #12
ekr wrote: post #8

I've never been interested in Apple stuff, but if you already have a keyboard, why not go keyboard-only, in a way similar to Vim. That should certainly be way more efficient. And thinking about it, do people realize how much effort is being replicated with these "app stores". There are already plenty of free(as in freedom) editors and IDE's out there, that would need no adaptations(in the case of Vim) whatsoever to r…

Vim on the Apple app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vim/id492668168?mt=8

Thanks for the link. Didn't know I could hack on VIM on my iDevice. Balance restored to the universe.

Re: Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

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Post by jgarnham »

e28eta wrote: post #46
objectiveariel wrote: post #16

It's a clever system: the app is really a text editor which sends the code you write to your Mac. Your Mac builds the app and sends the binary back to your iPad. Pros: * Code when you're on the move because... laptops haven't been invented yet? Cons: * You need an internet connection all the time. * No support for any version control system??? "Import your project from Dropbox and Dringend will handle syncing any cha…

It's $10. That's around what you pay for a text editor on iOS. This one has some very cool, different features. Apple's been working on Xcode for years, give this one some time to catch up. IB: I doubt re-implementing Interface Builder on iOS would be a good use of time. Probably better off using some good screen sharing software. I wonder what breakpoints would even look like without different multitasking. I found…

Thanks for pointing me to superdb, definitely looks like a very cool project.

Re: Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad

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Post by jgarnham »

chrisBob wrote: post #58

The biggest thing I see missing is debugging. I am not sure how much development I can do with out my NSLog statements. It shouldn't be hard to add writing the debugging statements to a text file for your to check on the iPad.

This is something I've been look into, unfortunately whilst you can log to a file rather than to the console it wouldn't be possible for Dringend to access the file due to sandboxing. However, my current idea is overriding NSLog when installing projects and funneling any logs into a custom pasteboard which Dringend can then read from when it becomes the open app again.

Definitely consider this to be something I'm looking to include in a future version, sooner rather than later.

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