Programming an iPad with an iPad: Putting the "Mobile" into Mobile App Development
May 15, 2011
This is a talk I gave on Thursday at the Austin CocoaCoder group (and here is the PDF if you don’t do Flash):
Developing iOS apps on your iPad with XCAB
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The code is here on GitHub, and you’ll need this version of iOS-BetaBuilder and accounts with Boxcar and Dropbox.
It’s not perfect, yet. There’s no provision for managing XCode projects or xib files (you’ll still have to do all that on the Mac), no auto-complete or refactoring or debugging or instruments and the lag and long cycle time gets old.
But it is possible to program an iPhone with out needing to lug a laptop around with you all the time.