[IAEP] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 31.03.2010, at 04:26, Cherry Withers wrote:
> Someone already put Squeak on an iPhone (iPod Touch more accurately): http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/11/squeak-on-the-iphone/

And the same someone made a player for Scratch projects:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scratch/id358266270

However, you cannot edit projects on the phone. The authoring UI would have to be completely redesigned. For serious work it's just too small, you at least need a screen size like the XO has.

> Not too far fetched to get Etoys on iPhone soon enough. :-) 

It would be no problem to get Etoys running. However, just playing back stuff is not in the spirit of Etoys. Our mantra is "Authoring is Always On". E.g. even when you view an Etoys project in a web browser, you have all the authoring tools available. Contrast this with Scratch, projects you view on the web cannot be edited directly in the browser, you need to download them and open in the full Scratch application.

- Bert -