Codify for iPad: the code at your fingertips

By the broadest functionality of the iPad added another feature, which is probably waiting for many novice developers. Thanks to a new app for iOS on the tablet PC from Apple is now possible to create a program. The app is developed by TwoLivesLeft, it is called Codify and stands in the App Store $ 8.

With Codify versed in programming, users can create their own applications directly on the iPad, using the Lua programming language. Moreover, the process of creation, in this case - is not just writing code, which can be used and the usual notebook, or any text editor. It supports all sorts of chips touch interface. For example, there are a variety of tools to simplify coding. You need to set a specific color? Excellent, type, click in the empty parentheses, which fits into a value and get into a comfortable color selection interface. It is not necessary to experiment with the numbers, just poke a finger in the desired color. And such tools in the application weight is supported by the function Multi-Touch and Accelerometer. Clearly all this can be seen in the video below:

Until recently, the application time like codify, enclosing the interpreted code is not allowed in the App Store, but Apple is now slightly softened rules. The drawback in the new program only one: all the written tools to be concluded in the tablet of their creator. Export them to other devices or in the App Store, and create with their help, the executable file can not be reported MacRumors. The result was a kind of sandbox for the programmer.

That is, at the moment Codify is an application that gives everyone an opportunity to practice and experiment in programming and creating games. Developers from TwoLivesLeft hope that in the future Apple will still allow export-written code. To support this feature in Codify they've even prepared update. But the last word still remains for the "Apple".