And while you wait for every other desktop application to be reinvented for your "tablet with keyboard", you could always just use a laptop.
Not that this isn't pretty cool, but it does seem like we're coming full circle sometimes. I almost expect that soon one of the tablet manufacturers is going to say "hey, know what'd be great? A fold-out keyboard so you don't have to carry it around separately!"
This is pretty cool, but why the heck would I want to develop on the platform I am developing for? We've had cross compilers for the last 30+ years and they have served us well. I don't want to use a crappy on screen keyboard and an environment that doesn't have all my tools for 10 hours a day. It's not healthy and it's not productive. How is it even better than the status quo?
I would go so far as to say that this a glimpse of the future of all development. Changing paradigms in user software on the mobile front might result in similar changes for power users / developers as well. Simpler UIs, cloud-storage, less need to care about file types, etc. Most developers right now would claim to hate such a system for writing code, but I bet it will represent much of the future of development.
Simplicity in the environment will result in faster, higher-quality development.
I can believe that we'll develop software on tablets in future, but I find it hard to believe that that future looks like a heavily cut down version of the eclipse text editor.
Yep, perfect way for developers working from home in their 160 sq foot apartments in San Francisco to revolutionize the way mobile software is being developed.
Would it be possible to load the files in Eclipse (or any editor) via USB, then edit and save them, and have AIDE compile and run it? This would save the hassle of maintaining Eclipse and the Android SDK on you development machine.
The notes say "AIDE is fully compatible with Eclipse projects. Just copy the sourcecode to your device, open any source file in AIDE to load the project and start coding." Assume that's what you want :)
This is a useful for playing around with code on a commute or making a tweak to existing code. I don't believe they think people are going to be writing entire large apps with this.
I used to use a program called OnboardC on the Palm Vx some 13 years ago that compiled PalmOS programs on-device. It had its uses, as does (say) the ConnectBot ssh client for Android. Sometimes you need to make that quick change on the move.
So one of the interesting projects I've got baking is running Android ICS on a Pandaboard connected to an HDMI monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
This looks like a very nice setup for 'banging out' a widget/app that I can use right away. Assuming that someone does an Android port to the Rasberry Pi that would be a good use case there too.
First I was interested then I read "tablet" then I read "Ice Cream Sandwich". What about my expen$ive Nexus One paperweight that I just paid off Google?
This is slightly more interesting than a port of gcc to Andriod - but it's still an conventional approach that targets edge case devices in Europe, not handsets in Nairobi's slums.
Touchdevelop is the shape of on handset programming.
Very interesting. Note there is already a cli based Android development environment running on devices called TerminalIDE that uses vim, complete with very useful plugins already installed, as the editor.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusr....
[+] [-] udp|14 years ago|reply
Not that this isn't pretty cool, but it does seem like we're coming full circle sometimes. I almost expect that soon one of the tablet manufacturers is going to say "hey, know what'd be great? A fold-out keyboard so you don't have to carry it around separately!"
[+] [-] bobwebb|14 years ago|reply
You were saying? And it's only $130!
[+] [-] thurn|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] cryptoz|14 years ago|reply
Simplicity in the environment will result in faster, higher-quality development.
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[+] [-] rmason|14 years ago|reply
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/03/08/berkeley-developer-se...
Yes I am being sarcastic ;<).
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[+] [-] motti|14 years ago|reply
I used to use a program called OnboardC on the Palm Vx some 13 years ago that compiled PalmOS programs on-device. It had its uses, as does (say) the ConnectBot ssh client for Android. Sometimes you need to make that quick change on the move.
[+] [-] ChuckMcM|14 years ago|reply
This looks like a very nice setup for 'banging out' a widget/app that I can use right away. Assuming that someone does an Android port to the Rasberry Pi that would be a good use case there too.
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[+] [-] nl|14 years ago|reply
It allows you to build iPad apps on the iPad..
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[+] [-] brudgers|14 years ago|reply
Touchdevelop is the shape of on handset programming.
http://www.touchdevelop.com/
[+] [-] hammersend|14 years ago|reply