TouchDevelop

TouchDevelop
Free
598 reviews

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Download size

4 MB

Last updated

5/13/2013

Version

2.11.0.0

Works with

  • Windows Phone 8
  • Windows Phone 7.5

App requires

  • appointments
  • contacts
  • phone identity
  • video and still capture
  • location services
  • photo, music, and video libraries
  • microphone
  • data services
  • push notification service
  • movement and directional sensor
  • camera
  • gyroscope
  • compass
  • HD720P (720x1280)
  • WVGA (480x800)
  • WXGA (768x1280)
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Supported languages (1)

English (United States)
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Create apps on your phone, share them with other people! Create fun games and automate recurring tasks. Query the phone sensors and send web requests to the cloud. You compose programs by tapping on the screen.
NOTE: Your phone doesn't need a gyroscope to install or use this app. If your phone includes a gyroscope, the app uses it to enhance the precision of motion-related functions.
Update v2.11: bug fixes
Features added in previous updates:
- Tutorial videos: Learn how to create cool apps step-by-step
- Synthesis: When you search for available commands, just say what you want to do, and TouchDevelop will try to write the script code for you
- Trace + replay (experimental): Watch a script run again
- Crash debugging: When a script fails, inspect the stack trace
- Access to accelerometer, location, maps, translation services, web search, tile customization, charting, live camera, geo augmented reality, share on Facebook or Twitter, and more
- Events: write actions that get invoked on certain external stimuli
- Design simple UIs by creating nested pages with buttons
- Earn money by submitting the apps you create to the Windows Phone Marketplace
- “Take the tour!” tutorial: learn how to write a script that plays random songs by shaking your phone
- Take screenshots, write comments, reply to comments, and compete on leaderboards
- Fast game and physics engine
- Use colors, pictures + sounds from the web as art 
- Get push notifications when someone does something related to your scripts
- "Pin to start" any script action to the phone start screen
- Define custom structured data types, objects, tables
- Create and reuse code with libraries
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Reviews

  • by Isaiah 5/19/2013
    Keep improving this app for us Microsoft it works great! Good job with the update guys and gals sign up for the beta for the new touch develop beta with Windows 8 support! Also don't forget to rate your apps with a good description and a proper rating welcome to the Windows community!😃
  • by Joey 5/15/2013
    Needs WP8 Support
  • by Mohamad Ali 5/15/2013
    Very good Thanks.
  • by Mohsin 5/12/2013
    Lighter, faster, more powerful!
  • by Ben 5/11/2013
    Nice easy to use app for making apps!
  • by User 5/6/2013
    I can't believe how simple it is to deal with JSon web services in this tiny ui. Color me impressed!
  • by Deosarran 5/3/2013
    Love it especially since I'm a Dreamsparks student.
  • by Christian 4/23/2013
    Great
  • by Pushkar 4/22/2013
    Wish Microsoft would let us access the ringer/vibration mode etc. to make it more usable
  • by Jim 4/20/2013
    There's a bit of a leaning curve to navigate the "calculator", but lots of potential for creating basic apps. The calculator is a touch based script editor.
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