Eureka! Eureka! I’ve found it. I’ve found it.
Hey you passionate Mobile App Developers out there,
Do such Eureka moments wash over you while you are in the washroom?
And, then, suddenly you don’t remember anything? Anything at all.
Good God! The codes came like a flash of lightening… those awesome codes. Then suddenly, like a speck of dust, it disappeared into thin air, leaving no trace at all.
In all probability, it might have helped you fix that nagging bug in your beloved app, or might as well brightened up a particular feature or functionality in your app.
Ah! But then, it was gone. Gone forever.
Well, several of us might have experienced such breakthrough moments… moments that could have been a silver lining in your ever so dull career graph. Only, if you had a magical gadget called apps that could have helped you code wherever, whenever you wanted to…
Anyway. The wait is finally over! Today, there are many code development apps that help you develop codes then and there…Morning or night, bedroom or bathroom, amidst traffic or trauma. So, stop blaming your memory or any other faculty anymore and bet on code development/editor apps.
From now on, any such Eureka codes crosses your mind, rather than stopping dead in your tracks, just hop over to your iPhone or Android devices, and script away peacefully.
In fact, you’d find several apps in the app stores, both in the iOS and Android, to help you build apps on the go. So, whenever you feel that you are hard pressed for time while developing your favorite app in the office room, or, the coding bug seems to get the better of you while you were busy watching Television in the living room, or you can’t help yourself from solving app issues in the washroom, then such apps will definitely come handy, helping you code right away.
Here goes those iOS and Android apps that help you script codes for your apps on the go:
iOS Apps For Developing Apps On The Go
Textastic
Think Textastic, if the code is on your mind and you don’t feel like booting up your desktop. Just log in to your iPhone, iPad or Mac, straightaway; launch Textastic and get your brain racking. The app is loaded with no fewer than 80 file variants, including HTML, Objective-C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, Javascript and many more, helping you step by step in your coding process.
For your information, the app is pretty popular, earning it the coveted crown of being one of the best adaptable code editors available.
Given that the code editor is written from scratch with native iOS APIs like the Core Text, the app is pretty quick and responsive.
Features
Highlights Syntax of over 80 languages. This includes HTML, XML, Markdown, Objective-C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, shell scripts and many more
Complements TextMate syntax definitions and themes
Helps Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP functions
Symbol list set up to quickly navigate things in a file
External keyboard support
Displays additional keys over the virtual keyboard which makes it easier to type characters often used for programming
Swipe gestures to move the cursors
Textastic supports several ways to import your files:
By using “Open In” in other apps
Connect to (S)FTP and WebDAV servers, and Dropbox
Over Wi-Fi with the built-in WebDAV server
Pythonista
Whether you are a raw or ripe Python developer, Pythonista app is meant for all. In short, you could use this app at all stages of your career. The feature-rich app comes with multi-touch, animations, sound and more, which helps developers create interactive experiments and prototypes. Additionally, you can use this tool for image processing as well.
Features:
Full-featured, backed by with syntax highlighting and code completion
Extended keyboard for Python developers
Interactive prompts along with code completion and history
Offline documentation coupled with quick lookup directly from the editor
Multiple light and dark color themes
Enables quick prototyping
Set up with Python standard library and additional modules for graphics, sound, and iOS system services
Loaded with third-party modules, e.g. requests, BeautifulSoup, Flask, bottle, SymPy, and more.
Universal app for iPad and iPhone
Evernote
Everyone knows about Evernote, right. And everyone is using Evernote. Isn’t that the case? But that won’t stop us from including Evernote in our list because it such a productive app. Notwithstanding the mobile platform you are working on, whether it’s iOS, Windows or Android, the app gives you full access to the data, thanks to its storage capacity of 1 GB. Though it’s a note taking app, you can scribble codes too. Additionally, you could use to arrange documents, text, images and more in one specific space. And you know what? There’s also a growing list of third-party add-ons that help you add a host of content to it.
If you are planning for a premium version, you even get a storage (1 GB), offline notebooks and priority tech support.
Features
An uncluttered workspace to write your codes
Make to-do’s and checklists
Organize Office docs, PDFs, and photos
Notebooks and tags to make your work look good
Searchable text with notes and photos
Discuss notes without leaving the app
Share notebooks for team projects
Meeting prep: create agendas and action items
Working Copy
This is one app the iOS developers shouldn’t work without, given that it’s connected to Git. Yep, you read that right. It’s connected to Git. So you can have access to repositories anytime, anywhere. In fact, the iOS 8 app allows users to access the clone repositories when offline. Plus, they can use it to edit, commit and more. And, yes, of course, it’s a free app.
Features
Ability to commit even when you are offline
Review and discuss code
A graph of your commit could be zoomed in and out as per requirements. Zoom in to know about specifics and zoom out for an overview
Preview HTML or Markup files
View the source code with syntax highlighting for most popular programming languages
Export zip files for entire repository content or sub-directories
Prompt 2
Prompt 2 is totally re-invented with new features such as an improved security, new design, editable clips whereby which you can access your most-sought after commands with just one-touch. Plus, you can sync your passwords, keys and servers across all your iOS devices.
Features
· Perfect syncing of your favorite passwords, private keys, and clips, all iOS devices
· Fast, and extremely secure
· Most-used commands could be accessed with a single tap
· Clips can be stored globally or per-server
· Easily change connections with a tab bar (iPad) or edge swiping (iPhone)
· Working with private keys is easier
· Secure prompt using Touch ID. Keeps the server safe
Android Apps For Developing Apps On The Go
BBC’s Micro Bit For Kids
Kids developing an app? Nah! Too much too believe! O.K. Go ahead and read this.
Mark Zuckerberg in a YouTube video talks about this Californian kid who used to corner him every morning with a volley of questions while he walked his way to Facebook’s old office building in California.
Kid: “Mr. Zuckerberg, I want to learn to programming,” the kid used to yell at him.
What shall I do? I want to build an iPhone app?”
Mark: Go ahead and download the developer kit then.
Next day, the kid says: The developers kit is worth $99 dollars, should I still request my mom to download it?
Mark: Yes. Why not?
The point I am trying to drive home is that the coding bug has bitten the kids, let alone the adults. Samsung, with its pulse on the market, recently launched an Android app Micro Bit for school kids aged 7 and above to help them code on the move. It could be while they are on their way to school or for that matter market or anywhere else.
However, for the app to work, kids have to ensure that their Android device connects to BBC’s mini computer, called Raspberry Pi. Once the connection is established, kids, could go ahead and develop games on their iPhones or tablets and then get them to flash wirelessly to the BBC’s mini computer. Or, they could bounce off ideas with each other on various coding projects in their spare time. If these weren’t enough, kids can use to take selfies, calls, texts and more.
According to Samsung 1.4 million digital professionals will be needed in the next five years, given the skyrocketing demand for connected and smart devices. The BBC is planning to distribute about one million free micro-bit computers to year 7 pupils with Samsung as the key partner.
As of now, this newly launched app is available only for teachers. That’s a Debbie Downer, isn’t it?
Features
Kids can create button to launch their smartphone’s camera
Kids can build their own security alarm
Cloud Console App (beta)
Nope, you won’t be able to build an app using Cloud Console App. But then, it helps with other equally crucial things such as monitoring your app in terms of problems and issues directly from your Android or tablet, and plus helps receive alerts. However, to access these facilities you need to host your project on Google’s Cloud Platform. Plus, you can use Cloud Monitoring to track the performance stats and resources. And, if you are not only the developer working on the app, and has got a team of devs out there, they too can be updated on the app status– in terms of issues popping up and the measures being adopted to manage them.
More than that, the app gives you App Engine and Compute Engine instances to be viewed and managed from the app. Besides this, it helps you with details and graphs in terms of starting and stopping an instance, among many other things.
Features
Find bugs real-time
Receive alerts real-time
Tracking performance and stats
Updation of work at the central level
App Engine and Compute Engine instances can be viewed and managed
DroitEdit
DroidEdit is one of the most popular and most flexible source code editors apps for android tablets and phones. One of the reasons being its exclusivity in terms of features and this includes Syntax highlighting for different languages such as Python, C, C++, C#, HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, LaTex, SQL, Lua and more. You don’t really have to look further once you have checked this app.
Features
Syntax highlighting for large number of languages, such as C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Lua, LaTex, Python, Ruby, and SQL
Auto and block indentation
Making changes between sessions
Character encoding support
Pro version is set up with Box, Dropbox, SFTP, FTP, and FTPS support; custom themes; run external commands through SSH; root mode
Java Code Viewer
This Java Code editor app supports an assortment of programming languages such as text viewer, C# viewer, Java viewer and other programming languages for Android. Moreover, it can also be used for other programming language based features such as show line number, syntax highlighting, search word and more.
Features
Syntax highlighting
Search word
Show line number
Updated Features
Flexibility in terms of changing the font size/type for text-viewer
Flexibility in terms of changing the line number size for text-viewer
Added advertisement (google addmob)
Require permissions (internet, access_network_state)
Jota Text Editor
Jota is a powerful text editor that supports a million characters and also works well for writing source code. Under the Preferences tab, you can adjust search, font, view, file, input, toolbar, and theme settings, and you can even add customized shortcuts.
Features
Auto-detects multiple character codes
Search/replace (supports regular expressions)
Customize colors and shortcuts
Show tabs and line breaks
Free, open source, and under the Apache License
Adjust word wrap and tab width
Line numbers and word counter
Auto save
OpenXcell’s 2 Cents
Developers should definitely check out these apps and even keep them handy when that elusive code comes calling them out of the blue.
For enterprises desperate to streamline their operations via apps, roping in an app development company is a must, given that they’ll help design apps as per your requirements.
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