Ask HN : mobile app that would be great for programmers

Posted by everydayvalue on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:31AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a programmer and I constantly find myself using a small collection of the same keyboard shortcuts all the time, I would really like a mobile app which when the mobile is plugged into the pc would then provide me with a few buttons on the mobile which i could then program with multi keyboard presses, eg, i press a single touch button on the mobile and it presses cntr+tab for switching windows etc

Anyone want to take up the challenge, I'd be happy to spend up to £5 on something like this and I imagine quite a few other programmers would as well

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Re:Ask HN : mobile app that would be great for programmers by ritratt on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:23AM (#3958375)

You want to use the phone as an extended keyboard full of macros. Neat. However, we all usually do not use lots of keys on the main keyboard like F1-F12,Scroll Lock, Pause|Break etc. So why not convert these keys into your macros? There are a bunch of programs out there that do this. I myself created one such program at my work which, when detects a PRINTSCREEN press, takes the screenshot and saves it in a specified directory in a specified format!

Let me know if you need that! As far as your offer of doing the same on a cellphone, i am afraid I am ill-equipped to be able to do that.

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Re:Ask HN : mobile app that would be great for programmers by willvarfar on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:41AM (#3958285)

The mobile app I want to see is one that:

using the camera, from a photo, does OCR and searches for same / similar code on-line

OCR is a hard problem, but its fairly constrained when we use fixed-width fonts in IDEs etc generally; this is finally within the realms of solvable on modern smartphones

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Re:Ask HN : mobile app that would be great for programmers by callmeed on Friday May 11, 2012 @06:51PM (#3961864)

Check out Keymote app. It does a lot of what you want (over wifi).

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