Sunday, February 12, 2012

Creating Apps for the iPad

I can never find exactly the right app to meet my needs. It seems like I am always looking for something that doesn't exist. Am I the only one? I'd really love to be able to create my own iPad apps, but I lack the coding know-how.

I've been researching this a bit and recently discovered an app called Codea. I've resisted buying it because it is $7.99 and I'm not sure if it will be useful to me or not. I bit the bullet and bought it yesterday. I haven't had a lot of time to delve into it, but I have discovered thy there are tutorials and examples within the app.



The app looks promising if I can figure out the Lua coding. There is one large drawback: You cannot submit an app made with Codea to the iTunes App Store...yet. Supposedly the ability to do so is coming. I really hope so.

Stay tuned for more info as I play with this app and figure it out a bit.

2 comments:

  1. Good luck...Apple is pretty strict about what goes into the app store. I used http://mobile.conduit.com/ and created a MRVED app over my lunch hour, but it was rejected for being lame :) (which it was!)

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  2. We're open sourcing the Codea engine soon. This will allow you to take your iPad Codea projects, build them as native apps, and submit them to the App Store.

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