Continuous .NET C# and F# IDE

Working on the phone with any IDE can be difficult but this app does very well and it is at this writing close to the current C# version so it isn’t vaporware. Lagging one or two versions in my view is acceptable.

Description confirms v11 support, however, when I try to use v10 features, IDE says C# is only v9, and those features are not available. Otherwise it is a great tool for education.

I guess you have to waste your money to find out you can’t have custom delegates. Maybe I am missing something but the code from Visual Studio doesn’t work unless you use EventHandler.

Useless. Money wasted.

I love using this app whenever i feel like coding, but sometimes when i run the code (even without auto-run) it for some reason runs the same command multiple times. I can definitely see this app blowing up and becoming a great app for coding, it just needs some bug fixes. Things i could suggest are: fix the code running bug i previously mentioned, let the user delete text when typing into a readline console, make a debugger, and maybe some better explanations for how different functions work within the app. I still love using this, I just think it needs some work to be done.

A C# IDE on my iPad for under $15 that lets me quickly edit and test pixel perfect Xamarin Forms xaml prototypes with no deployment overhead? Heck yeah!

The thing hard crashes every time I wrap MainPage in a NavigationPage or try to use a ViewCell written in code? Rough edges like an EntryPointNotFound exception that’ll never go away (but also doesn’t stop running my app)? Support that boils down to a self-help forum with no posts from the app author? Heck, yeah. It’s got those too.

If it were billed as a xaml-only UI mocking tool and didn’t try to do anything else, concentrating on doing that well (or just console logs and reads. really any subset of a full IDE), I’d be game. As is, it’s got Icarus Syndrome. It flew too close to the sun and ended up in the drink.

I am encouraged that it’s had a few recent-ish updates. I’m holding out some hope. It’s got so much potential, just waaaay too rough to say it’s followed through.

1. Compiler errors are off screen on iPhone

2. No template support (ie cw tab tab)

You can create a .net core project but get an “ASP.NET Core servers are not supported, yet.” Error When running it?

Good so far but can't erase text when typing into readline console Input and when holding backspace to delete large sections app freezes up and crashes. Have to slowly delete char by char.

now you add .netcore. yeah this is my fav ide on the go for c#. thank you!

just tried it. very. very. good.

I love the IDE and it’s making it extremely easy to learn C#. However, the lack of an offline Doc built into the app really kills it for me. Dash has saved me there but it’s still aggravating.

Another thing is that it would definitely improve the experience if we were able to access our files from the “files” app, so that we would be easily able to move our projects/apps from our main computer/examples we download from the internet without having to copy them over file...by....file. Of which it doesn’t even allow you to add .csproj files or even other file types that are available in the IDE itself. Only .cs files.

Aside from those this is very much a solid IDE for learning C# and F# as well as application development with the Xamarin codebase.

Like seriously the ability to program on the go in c# with an application that feels as native and intuitive as the phone app is so awesome.

I tried a few aspects and it allows you to create a solution with projects. It looks like it compiles locally and FAST and allows for gui projects as well as console apps. This is hands down the best coding app for C# on the iphone and I’ve tried a few. No more just snippets coding.

My full time job is iOS development using Xamarin, and when I first downloaded this app, I was impressed with how well it worked. However, after using it a bit more, there's definitely some room for improvement.

The app works well enough that I still recommend it to friends and co-workers, but I have a pretty long list of things that bug me. Almost all of them are related to convenience when editing code, but they add up:

Editing:
• Highlighting code and pressing tab replaces all of the code with a tab character, rather than indenting it. Similarly, pressing shift+tab doesn't unindent code.
• Pressing delete at the end of an empty line doesn't delete the line. It starts deleting the whitespace instead.
• Cmd + / doesn't comment and uncomment code.
• Undo almost always just destroys your code, turning it into an awful mess. You're better off just manually undoing a change in most cases.

Code Completion:
• Neither tab nor space accepts code completion. This is more of a personal preference, but something more customizable and similar to real IDEs would be nice.
• Pressing the up and down arrow keys on a keyboard doesn't navigate through the list of code completions.
• There's no way to dismiss the code completions (that I'm aware of).

Project Management:
• There's no easy way to share projects between devices. Something like Git would be amazing. I believe the developer said they couldn't add Git integration because it was against the App Store Guidelines, but I don't believe that case. Running user-provided code should be perfectly acceptable (similar to Swift Playgrounds). The only time that downloading code isn't okay is when it completely changes the app's behavior and intended purpose.
• The organization of projects and files is still a little weird. Perhaps it's just because I'm not familiar with it yet, but it's quite different from any other app I've used on both macOS and iOS.
• There's no easy way to reference existing projects that I've found. This limits the abilities of this app a bit, but I don't know that it's really essential.

All in all, don't get me wrong. This app is great and it's quite easy to work with. I like using it when I want to test something quick, or when I want to teach friends about C#, Xamarin, UIKit, etc. There just happen to be quite a few areas where small changes could introduce substantial improvements in usability.

Taking a course on variables, can’t even run a simple console window that functions. When I run the following code pasted below, on my pc... using VB, it allows me to type in my name in the console window to test it out.

Can’t do that here with this worthless IDE. Lazy dev here was more interested in making look pretty with a cute UI.

If there was passion behind this then why..

1) Doesn’t allow me to do something as simple as typing into the console window when hitting play to test my course variables, very simplistic stuff. App totally disregards my inputs in console window.

2) I can’t even complete my course studies on here because of this trash dev abandonment.

3) Dear programming student, hobbyist.. go check online for a compiler on there. This dev, abandoned Continous.

4) No update in 7 months. These are old reviews, when this worthless IDE, was supposedly, the thing to use. (Probably this trash dev’s forum buddies) he’s supposed to be someone respected and important on there- suure. Anyways, that group looked out, bought his stuff and threw praise. Fake.

Basically...
If you cannot do something as simple as study on here to get better - I doubt the uses for this IDE in regards to real world uses/productivity.

This dev is lazy and hides in silence, so it is, what it is.

Hopefully someone comes along releases superior product and forces this trash along with its lazy creator - to permanently... disappear.

Yup - I’m upset, this filth cut into my studying my time, I spent hours thinking it was me messing up, so I spent along time trying to figure out what I did wrong. Until I found out, it’s this trash dev app. Time I will never get back.

Bottomline = trash dev, I look forward to him disappearing from the App Store.




namespace Variables
{
public class App
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
/*
int x;
int y;

x = 7;
y = x + 3;

Console.WriteLine(y);
Console.ReadLine();
*/

Console.WriteLine("What is your name?");
Console.Write("Type your first name: ");
string myFirstName;
myFirstName = Console.ReadLine();

string myLastName;
Console.Write("Type your last name: ");
myLastName = Console.ReadLine();

Console.WriteLine("Hello, " + myFirstName + " " + myLastName);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}

This app is pretty good but the are some issues especially with reading from the console or asking for user input. My main issue is the developer seems to have abandon support for the app. Questions get asked in the forums with no answer.