How many Ubuntu Phones there are?

Re:How many Ubuntu Phones there are? by fit2rule on Monday September 28, 2015 @07:22AM (#10289828)

I'd love to see the Ubuntu phone try to do things that the iPhone just can't do - things like give developers the tools they need to write apps: onboard, i.e. use the thing itself to build software for it.

Anyone know if thats possible, or do you still have to have an external cross-compiler/IDE to write proper apps for it?

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Re:How many Ubuntu Phones there are? by simonh on Monday September 28, 2015 @08:50AM (#10290157)

> ...write apps: onboard, i.e. use the thing itself to build software for it.

I do this on iOS using Pythonista. It includes a basic on-device GUI design tool, hooks into various iOS built-in libraries and some useful third party Python libraries. There are even a few (admittedly trivial) apps published to the App store written in Pythonista. There's also Codea if you prefer Lua to Python. I tend to do most work in an iPad as a phone is a bit cramped for working on code.

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