TouchDevelop

Create apps ON your phone!

Peli de Halleux (Senior Software Developer)Microsoft Research

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technology shifthttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3

sensors+cloudmobile devices have moreto offer than your last PC:touch screen, high-res camera(s),WiFi, cellular, bluetooth,GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, FM tuner, NFC, …

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a touch-based IDE in your pocket

touchdevelop is an app to create, share, run scriptseverything happens on your phone – no PC required!

let’s write some code…

demotouchdevelop

touchdevelop.com

scripts written by users

demotouchdevelop

UW Hackathon

language+editor

typed language + semi-structured editor

typed, imperative, procedural, data-structures

designed big fingers and small screens

auto-completion based on crowd-sourcing

program synthesis

runtime

designed for mobile

fully interruptible

state serializable

single threaded

available APIsall phone features are available via touchdevelopcamera, touch, accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, microphone, …contacts, calendar, email, pictures, songs, …web queries, search, maps, social networksgraphics with physics enginetiles

script sharingscript bazaarcentral authority in cloud

anyone can publish scripts

you can discover other scripts

scripts come with source code

all published scripts are automatically analyzed for privacy concerns

socialprogramming: a social experienceuser profile

discuss in forum

review

screenshots

give ♥ to scripts

notifications

it’s happening on all platforms!

PC – legacy development model

Android: AIDE, App Inventor, …

iOS: Codea

mobile development environments are becoming popular on all platforms

only touchdevelop embraces new devices (touchscreen, editor, language, social)

primitive cloud typescloud Integers: get, set(x), add(x)cloud Strings: get, set(s), set-if-empty(s)…

structured cloud typestablesindices

cloud types (future)

beyond the phonetables,PCs,giant touch screens,…

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future

summary

touchdevelop is an IDE and runtime for touch devices

embraces new realitylanguage and editor designed for mobile and touchscreenfirst-class access to all sensors and servicessharing and learning with friends in the cloud

great for teaching/learning, new research opportunitiesmobile devices enable and require new approaches to software developmentphone loan program for universities – ask us!

questions?

touchdevelop.comresearch.microsoft.com/touchdevelop