Codea 4+

Creative coding

Two Lives Left

Designed for iPad

    • 4.0 • 4 Ratings
    • 129,00 kr

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Description

"It’s kind of like the Garage Band of coding." – Wired

"Codea for iPad is a super slick way to write and run programs on your iPad." – Gizmodo

Codea lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the accelerometer.

We think Codea is the most beautiful code editor you'll use, and it's easy. Codea is designed to let you touch your code. Want to change a color, or an image? Tapping will bring up visual editors that let you choose exactly what you want.

Codea is built on the Lua programming language. A simple, elegant language that doesn't rely too much on symbols — a perfect match for iPad.

Here's how you use it: type your code. Press play to watch it run. Interact with it. Get creative.

FEATURES

• A fully featured 2D and 3D renderer
• Lots of great example projects to learn from, including games
• Touch your code: tap colors, images and sounds to adjust them
• Export your finished projects to Xcode to produce real apps
• Complete in-line reference documentation accessible from keyboard
• Intelligent syntax highlighting and auto-completing code editor
• Import your own assets from Dropbox
• Full 2D and 3D physics engines for complex motion
• Add parameters so you can tweak variables at runtime
• Interact with accelerometer and multi-touch on your device
• Generate retro-game sound effects
• GLSL Shader Language support with live shader editor
• Bluetooth keyboard support and keyboard shortcuts
• Air Code: code live from your PC using WiFi
• Much, much more

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Join the forums at https://talk.codea.io to ask questions, share ideas and get help when you need it

• If you need help or wish to get in contact with us, please use the support link on this page

What’s New

Version 3.11

iCloud Drive
• Store your projects on iCloud Drive, thanks to Unsung's amazing work. You can select a location when creating a new project or move existing projects to iCloud with a long press and select "Move to iCloud." Now you can have all your projects on all your devices, wherever you are

Air Code
• Devices running Codea will appear directly in VS Code, making Air Code easier than ever to use. Plus, we've introduced log points for evaluating expressions during debugging. All thanks to the tireless efforts of Jean-François

Accessibility
• Thanks to our newest team member, Ari, the main project browser is now more accessible, and is now navigatable via VoiceOver

Collaboration via iCloud
• Work on projects with friends by sharing through iCloud. Simply long-press a project in iCloud, choose "Share Project" and select "Collaboration" to get started

UI Enhancements
• The create project screen has been completely re-written. Set custom tint colors for your projects to personalize your workspace

Editor
• We've made code editing smoother with improvements in tokenization and keyboard navigation

Modern Renderer
• The modern renderer has received a host of improvements and fixes. Now, you can set colorspace, utilize clipping, and more. We're actively working on this, so let us know what you think

Fixes
• Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements, including performance issues when using asset keys

Thank You
• A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this release, especially our new team members!

Ratings and Reviews

4.0 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

A-) ,

By far the best app ever made

Codea is a complete Lua IDE, with numerous C-libraries built in. You can even write your own GPU shaders and use them within your Lua projects. It is very fast, so even advanced games and other projects can be made, especially if combined with shaders. Projects can easily be converted to Xcode and compiled to stand-alone apps, which can then be distributed on app store etc. The developer is quite active and also develops the Shade app, which is a graphical shader-editor which is also highly recommended. Definitely worth the money - Get it now if you like to code or want to learn - Lua is both easy-to-learn and highly efficient to execute. It is also supported on many platforms and C source (and other languages / platforms) is available if you want to include a Lua interpreter in your own compiled projects.

Bump (feb. 2024): Still the best app in the store, lots of new features, including a full Minecraft-like block/voxel library, with infinite terrain and adv. proc.gen. etc. and even more in the beta, including support for the new Metal 3D gfx for iPadOS and 3D physics plus more, so the future is looking very bright as well.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your wonderful review. We have a lot more to come!

LucasCoder ,

Super fun app

However I'm not the best in coding, I love to own Codea.

I can recommend it, to somebody who has or want to learn some serious coding Language.

I've seen lots of tutorials on YouTube with Codea, so I think that a creat place to start learning the coding Language Codea use.

Hope this is helpful for you ;-)

krapex ,

Freesing

I can’t start a new projekt

App Privacy

The developer, Two Lives Left, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Game Center

    Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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