Microsoft TouchStudio Uses Phone To Program Phone

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 11, 2011 @09:15PM from the calling-functions dept.

theodp writes "Over the weekend, Microsoft released the beta of TouchStudio, a free Windows Phone app that allows one to write programs for a phone on the very same phone, no computer required. According to the Microsoft Research project page, the work-in-progress TouchStudio aims to bring 'the excitement of the first programmable personal computers to the phone.' Among the code examples provided is a four-liner that scans a phone's music collection for songs less than three minutes long and produces a fairly slick, clickable playlist complete with track info and artwork. Easier than iPhone SDK programming, no?"

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Re:Late Again? by Sc4Freak · 2011-04-11 22:01 · Score: 3, Informative

It's "script manipulation" in the same sense that writing Python would be "script manipulation". TouchStudio contains a turing-complete scripting language that's tailored to working with/on a touchscreen phone.
eg. A screenshot I found on Microsoft Research.
Android Scripting Environment by asnelt · 2011-04-11 22:16 · Score: 3, Informative

Android has had more powerful scripting for quite some time: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/