Coding on the iPad Pro - Part 1

[@tech_craft]

Comment below if you have any coding topics you'd like to see covered.

[@pablogavilan2927]

Tech Craft do you now any app for code in java on the iPad?

[@tech_craft]

The best solution I have for Java development is to use Screens to remote into my laptop to use IDEA. If I have to do Java coding I'd drop back to carrying my laptop I think. I have done Java in vim over SSH, but I didn't find it super productive.

[@DarylChangs]

Tech Craft Dontou recommend getting the 11 or 12.9” iPad Pro? Why did u get the 11” instead?

[@justforyouenjoi]

@@tech_craft I'm taking intro to Java at University now and was hoping I could use my iPad pro as well! Guess I'm stuck with the old laptop for a while longer.

[@tech_craft]

Daryl Chang For me it’s a weight and form factor thing. I work on the go a lot so having the smaller machine is great for me. I prefer the 11” for note taking too just because I think it’s easier to hold. My suggestion is to spend 30-45 minutes at the store if you can and try them both. I did a bit of time with each device and quickly realised I’d more be comfortable with the 11”.

[@kevinxin1545]

Do you know how hard it is to look for 22 minutes of pure information now from the internet? Usually it takes me about 2 hours. Here it actually just takes 22 minutes! Thanks for this I've been looking for this and already using working copy but not the mouse. Just tried the mouse and it's much more fluid than I imagined.

[@TerenceMurrayWolf]

Dude!!! You’re a freakin genius. You not only answered my questions, but even gave me a few ideas for a raspberry pi server project I’m working on. Will be looking forward to part II

[@tech_craft]

Exciting! I was just planning a trip to the Raspberry Pi store over in Cambridge because I have two projects that I want to run up on the new Pi4. Love to hear about what you end up with.

[@hvdb4492]

Hi. I’m coming across raspberry pie server basics. But I’m so new to this , I’m currently on Google cloud and setting up an identity. But my question is what do you use raspberry pi for. Is it a type of FTP/ or server ? Or API ? I’m still learning these abbreviations

[@jayoils123]

@@tech_craft I’m a studying ccomputer programing and I’m in the beginning stage of learning the basics starting off with html what app would you recommend for me overall since my iPad is my only and current device ?

[@mheelitube]

Just want to say a big thank you. I love iPad form factor and I love programming. I never knew iPad could do that in Codea and in Pythonista. You've just added tons of value to my iPad. Your video is very precise and to the point. I love it.

[@dakotaburns7551]

Dude!! You’re absolutely rocking it man!! Love this stuff! As Web Developer for 20+ yrs, and user of latest iPad, I find the prospect of using iPad for development is quite cool!! Keep up the great work!

[@withmikes]

Best Pythonista video I've ever seen! Would love to see you deep dive even further on Pythonista!

[@customfwj642]

withmikes finally someone else who knows about this app. I love Pythonista.

[@radukapu]

Absolutely amazing video! I'm just starting with Python coding and being able to know how much I can do on my ipad is mind blowing. Thank you for your very clear and comprehensive information.

[@drmariopepper4354]

This guy knows his stuff! Keep up the hard work and stay positive!

[@nicholasdec1829]

bro honestly i love your videos and props to you for having 4k

[@FernandoAES]

Just got an iPad with Magic Keyboard and will slowly migrate my workflow and bash scripts to be native in the iPad. Great material and finally some stuff beyond using duet display and calling it "working on the iPad".

[@Ata7violin]

I have always been interested to learn how to code. I'd love to learn more about coding from your videos. Would you consider doing a series related to this?

[@karimla9338]

Check webdevsimplified, traversymedia, the net ninja and derek banas

[@Ata7violin]

@@karimla9338 Thank you very much

[@CabbageShop]

I'm a developer and can quite happily use an ipad + the blink app to connect to a server and code on there. Where I have a problem is when developing a Web app the lack of dev tool in the ipad browser is a killer

[@stockinvestor4149]

This channel looks very professional and the way the video pans out is really good too. 6k subs cheers

[@faustosanchez1365]

Man! This video is amazing, it disserves 10 million views at least! You have a new subscriber from Argentina! Keep it up! Cheers!

[@FarhanAnsarii]

You have a long way to go dude, this is just next level technical stuff. All the very best and keep posting such informative videos.

[@kogcyc]

Wow! Apple has a usable filesystem? Stunningly practical.

[@Rawaby2021]

You should change the title to Coding python on ipad

[@chinarut]

to be fair - he does get into Codea based on Lua - I think he’s trying to open peeps up as to what’s possible and it’s just a matter of time before we see node.js, ruby, etc. using the same meta-framework

[@arthjeff9011]

kodex

[@punkyagogo]

Chinarut R Play.js is prob the best app for react and node development. Super cheap too.

[@theja63]

should've read the comments first😛

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@chinarut uP

[@roripocket6273]

Thanks for sharing this videos, I just received and iPad Air 5, and trying to use it for coding. This video is just what I need!

[@sdb175]

I just liked and subscribed, I don't even have an iPad, lol. But the way you've explained everything deserves my subscription, I didn't even wait for the video to finish, I just felt I should. KZbin should have more creators like you in tech.

[@tech_craft]

Thanks for your kind words.

[@SylvainGil]

Very informative, the part where you explained the workflow between Pythonista, Working Copy and Textastic was very useful to me. Thank you!

[@sondant4224]

Wow that was sick man! You just executed python code on an iPad, that was genius! Thanks for the Great inspiration, you can create really nice workflows like that

[@tech_craft]

It’s super exciting. Things are looking even brighter since I filmed this. The A-shell app came out which gives you a full local shell complete with vim and python. And there is iSH in beta at the moment that is a full Alpine Linux running locally (emulated) on the iPad.

[@sondant4224]

Tech Craft Great that the iPad is becoming more then a media consumption device! Looking forward to your next videos, I subscribed

[@eliasdetrois]

Very inspiring and I‘m hoping to take my iPad game to the next level with your ideas and insight

[@johnsobota6234]

any content for programming for the iPad Pro USB port would be fantastic !

[@kevinxin1545]

If you are using Logitech gaming mouse and is having lag issues when connected to the ipad, the solution is to first set the polling rate of the mouse to be 250 or less on a machine that has logitech gaming software downloaded first. I tried and polling rates of 125 and 250 are both lag free. 500 and 1000 gets really bad lagging issues and renders the mouse unusable on the Ipad. I think the same logic could be applied to other mice if you are having trouble with them. Hope this helps someone!

[@richardwalters9249]

Very nice. I’d also like to give a plug for iVim for anyone who likes the old-school vi editor. One can use “Open with...” for files in Working Copy, and edit in iVim ! It even has a whole slew of new iOS ports, like entering :ishare to see a pop-up window to share text content to anything in your share sheet. Very nice editor option for coders.

[@lwa.dev74]

Great Vlog about the iPad Pro & Pythonista 3.. after watching this i purchased this instantly as I’m learning python now and like the fact that i can use a local application rather that having to use cloud base container which is ok but nice to run locally...

[@cookieplays698]

Does pythonista will support in ipad 6thgen?

[@mschmackle]

Lokesh I'm running it on 5th gen

[@SiddharthaGhoshSid]

Finally! This is what I have been looking for! Thanks a ton, you're a savior!

[@tech_craft]

Glad you liked it. I hope it helps.

[@SiddharthaGhoshSid]

@@tech_craft Absolutely! Thanks a ton again! Please keep doing these kind of informative videos!

[@SwitchedOn]

Loving your stuff dude! Defo would like a shortcuts tutorial, really struggling to understand how I can use it. Thanks!

[@mindbalance_cc]

Really pleased to have found this channel. Been a fan of the iPad and now iPadOS and had a latent interest in Python - sparked my interest in this again. Congrats on the growth on what is such a young channel. I’m subbed and will be watching with interest. Cheers!

[@VikalpGautam]

Brilliant video. Didnt know iPad is so versatile and powerful

[@Dmckdnsmssnsns]

Seamus O'Dork it’s not a computer. It’s just a tablet with a mobile OS. But it is indeed powerful

[@chinarut]

@@Dmckdnsmssnsns lol. “what is a computer?” ;)

[@amaclellan3]

Short cuts video ! Haha we want it all ! You really have a great channel here, no nonsense, very well spoken and organized explanations.

[@dz041]

Great video! Looking forward to more, nice work buddy. Greetings from Australia!

[@stephenmcconnell7868]

Thank you for this. I’m very interested in developing on the iPad and you’ve shown me that I can.

[@colbymelvin2330]

This project intrigues me and I think I'd like to try something similar. I'm currently using a networked rPi 4 as a development environment for personal projects - I develop on the rPi from inside VSCode's GUI on any machine on my home network via the Remote Development Extension (ssh) for VSCode. Couple questions about your setup: 1. Can you speak to the code review experience on a tablet? Would you typically use the web, or something like GitHub's iOS application? 2. Are you able to install and use any sort of language-specific linter in your text editing env on your iPad?

[@noartifice]

This is such an outstanding video. Concise, engaging, and super informative. Subscribed.

[@giorgiobassan]

I would love to make a fully functional iOS app on my iPad, also using Swift would be awesome but I cannot find any IDE where I can do that, can you help me? This is the first video a watched and I’m subscribed!

[@tech_craft]

Swift development on the iPad isn’t possible in any meaningful way yet. I really hope that Apple supports this in the future.

[@harrytsang1501]

My routine of coding on an iPad is a lot simpler and closer to a traditional laptop. I just ssh into a remote server with a tmux session and use vim from there. Virtually no language restriction, vim bindings are great and no synchronisation needed across devices of all platforms

[@tech_craft]

I'm covering this workflow in part 2 :)

[@analiacabello2011]

I am so glad I found this video! Most people are talking about the video editing and design. This is is just what I needed. One question, in your opinion could you use the ipad pro as your only work device (for a Maths major)? I am starting next year. I would expect it not to be enough for a Computer Science major (because I assume they do a lot of hard core coding), but I am not sure about Maths. I am expecting some coding on the Maths degree (but not nearly as much as a CS major). Thank you :)

[@damonmartin1572]

Pythonista is crazy. I swear you can even do gui programming with it shown on their website. No tkinter but still impressive. I could see this being cool for doing a bit of code on the go then compile stiff at home. I would recomend a laptop or pc if you have nothing, but my iPad Pro will be used more for note taking at uni for maths and stuff in comp sci and my PC will be for coding.

[@ChapmanKarluvirov]

Excellent this is was i expecting to see, now i have almost your same setup! Thanks Tech Craft ;)

[@tech_craft]

Hope it works out!

[@madeleinevargas8898]

Great video! I’m new to python, learning data science so my professor wants us to learn coding but all I hv is an iPad no laptop

[@pablogavilan2927]

Nice video, waiting for part 2!

[@Showbizboy]

I wish I knew what you were talking about!

[@dharma_adiputra]

Wow, this video contains a dense of information for me. Thanks.

[@TheMosester]

This video is just amazing, very high quality!!! Many thanks

[@aktivex2075]

are you going to stall, your wings are spreading

[@stevenrunnalls185]

Was excited to watch this as I have wanted to teach Python to my Year 8 students who only have iPads. 2 minutes in and you show that you have a separate keyboard and mouse, making it an equivalent laptop. Reinforces that iPads are utterly useless for teaching coding.

[@nicolos1645]

Wow I never knew Juno existed! Yay Jupyter on the ipad!!!

[@tech_craft]

It's a great setup. I have high hopes for the future for iPad as a device for doing data science work on.

[@Clytax]

Blinking is fun you should try

[@Yodasmith16]

1 year later 50x the subscribers good work

[@Dettol68]

Video on using your iPad on the road, by remote control of your Mac and/or PC, please

[@Dm-ni7ti]

Google colab lets you code python online similar to jupyter in that it has cells that run individually, but some of the packages might be missing.

[@sm0na]

wow, that was a lot more than I would think would be possible! thanks for sharing your workflow with us

[@danielnainggolan8702]

This is exciting, any update in 2020 or IpadOS 14 sir?

[@bitkahuna]

just want to say THANKS for using a decent microphone. what are you using?

[@tech_craft]

I’m using the Rode NTG-4+. I really like working with it. I run it into a Zoom H4N audio recorder for secondary recording and preamp, then from the Zoom into the camera.

[@99Str3XD]

Great stuff ! Love From India

[@RichardKaseler]

Great video. I was thrilled to learn about Pythonista. I would caution that the app appears to have been abandoned on the App Store with no updates in over a year and no product announcements or information about future support on the developers website. My hopes were dashed in that I can’t get excited about a tool where the developer has “gone dark”.

[@tech_craft]

From sales figures it seems like Pythonista is still making money for the developer so hopefully he's not going to abandon the product completely!

[@RichardKaseler]

@@tech_craft That is hopeful. Perhaps he or she could post some intentions for the future of the product. Thanks!

[@ignacioanezin2352]

make a new video about the topic, but related to the new posibylities that the ipad pro 2020 brings up to the table with the trackpad and the new os. A video like that would have a lot of impact

[@tech_craft]

New iPad ordered! I'm not convinced yet that the hardware is _that_ much better, but the software landscape has changed enough in the last 6 months for a refresh of this video.

[@ignacioanezin2352]

@@tech_craft I also didn't think it's that much of an improve, but the camera set-up it is also great. So I think is worth it. I'll waiting the video. Happy quarantine!

[@elfensky]

Very interesting video, didnt know it was possible to run any kind of web server on the iPad. The intro is really long though, the real content starts at 2:38

[@tech_craft]

Valid point about the lengthy intro. I think my more recent videos get to the meat much faster.

[@chinarut]

@@tech_craft just break down the table of contents in the beginning. while it took effort, once I focused time to watch the whole video - it’s perfect :)

[@John_Doe_6969]

Great video- thanks! I started learning webdevlopment and Python some weeks ago. For now I‘m using my macbook from work, but am looking to get sth. my own. I dont know if I should get the m1 macbook or the iPad Pro - can you recommend sth. ? Thank you so much!

[@cfischer691]

Id love a video about your shortcut usage

[@sean7891233]

wow now up to more than 50k subs, congrats!

[@govindsinghtomar5504]

Man you are very addictive ❤

[@Sebpv2006]

Is that a book of the elements of statistical learning in the background ?

[@graykaufmann]

Video begins here: 2:39 Got you man

[@MikeMaheu]

Great work on starting this channel with a boom! Love the content and subject matter. Would love to see a walkthrough of scripting Apple Shortcuts. For example I want to have a shortcut that connects my AirPods. Or use Apple Shortcut to execute Pythonista script.

[@tech_craft]

Thanks for your kind words. I have some shortcuts content coming. The AirPods idea is an interesting one and I have Shortcuts/Pythonista on the list.

[@chandlerminh6230]

Cool AF Subscribed and expecting more quality content from you!

[@hadihassan_]

I wanted to ask that can the 6th gen Ipad provide the power needed for coding and programming?

[@discounttyres4161]

You are a genius!!!!.Subscribed...

[@nobeebadobea]

Hi!!! Thank u for this great video! I am planning to buy an iPad in few weeks. As a software engineer myself, I would love to learn coding in an iPad, however, I still am wondering, how many storage space is considered optimum/enough if I want to use it to create simple apps/website in iPadOs. I am not considering to get a macbook/iMac because I want to use the iPad for digital illustration as well ^_^ looking forward for your answer!!

[@Abduldoctor]

You could buy an external accessory with expandable storage

[@farasakbar2761]

Just found this gem!!! Maybe u must start create python tutorial for ipad pls

[@dimicool]

Nice video, got me interested and mimicked your setup... however when I pull some changes with Working Copy, I see the changes in Textastic, but in Pythonista the file isn’t updated. Even worse, after opening the file in Pythonista and I go back to Working Copy, he wants to perform the ‘change’ from the old file and I need to revert. You don’t have this behaviour ? This is very annoying and not workable actually. Thanks for your input .

[@jefflewis5461]

So, to sum up 23m of video: how to use your iPad Pro as a terminal for Python development on a remote server. And yes, this works. You could also use RDS and develop full Windows apps using Visual Studio running on a server or remote into a Linux server and use Bash or Eclipse. Of course that works with everything else too. Personally, the lack of real mouse support nixes the iPad as a serious dev shell, but hey. And if you're doing complex UI, also going to be tricky. As for battery life, unless you live and work in a pasture or a forest and do coding sessions longer than 8hrs (which is a bad idea, BTW), electricity isn't THAT hard to come by. So, kudos for making this work for you, but as is the case in a lot of these "how I made the iPad do X" vids, the problem is that you started with the wrong question: "how can I use the iPad for this?" rather than the right question: "what's the best tool for this problem?"

[@tech_craft]

Thanks for your comment. I don't believe I did start with the wrong question. I work on the go a lot, I travel a lot so my starting point is: what's the lightest setup with the best battery life I can get. I really cannot agree that battery life is only important if you live out in the wild. If I get on a train journey and the power at the tables is down, or on plane with no at-seat power, all of a sudden electricity is that EASY to come by. Everybody has different requirements. I propose that if you're requirements are heavily focused on mobility then a smaller setup with better battery life is the best optimisation. To return to your point about the mouse, I think there are plenty of devs who would disagree that you need a mouse for 'serious' work. I use a keyboard-heavy workflow so not really restricted by the mouse at all.

[@WaheedAkhtarWahid]

Play.js for nodejs and React apps to your review.

[@chinarut]

i heard about play.js! I can’t dive in immediately and assume it integrates just as easy with Working Copy?

[@WaheedAkhtarWahid]

@@chinarut It exposes its document folder to "On My iPad" under files. We can use the folder sync with Working Copy.

[@mivoe99]

Very interesting video even tough I am not owning an iPad and not planning to buy one.

[@prithvirajarora2121]

Man , you’re awesome 💯

[@Velo1010]

When is Apple going to release full mouse support for the iPad? At the moment it’s disguised as Accessibility, rather than Mouse or External Navigation, or something like that.

[@gurungmadan]

You mentioned text editor and version control but what about package manager (e.g. npm), task runners (e.g. gulp) or bundler (e.g. webpack) all of which are used by developers these days. Any work around those??

[@tech_craft]

In Pythonista I use pip for package management using the Stash utility I showed in the video. Similarly, that Juno has a pip-like package manager built-in. Based on some recommendations in the comments, I've been trying out the play.js app which has npm available to install packages for Node/React apps. I've not yet seen anything for doing Ruby directly on the iPad, but I've been doing Rails work quite comfortably over SSH.

[@DjangoGroen]

1500? Holy shit you’re on 3K almost 4K right know 😂😂 you’re gonna be big if this keeps going

[@tech_craft]

It's been a fairly wild ride so far. When I started I had hoped to 1K by the end of the year, I certainly didn't expect to be ~4K with over two months of the year left!

[@Calfen720]

Approaching 40k now. Onwards and upwards for you! You've also persuaded me to buy an iPad Pro. My bank card may not thank you but I surely do!

[@Про100Мен-с7р]

Perfect video

[@mschmackle]

Great video. Question, do you do any Django programming on the iPad? If so, how does one go about MySQL or Postgres connectivity?

[@aeebeecee3737]

After your video, I love iPad more than Laptop.

[@sunnsinklab8537]

Thank you so much .. being an engineer and programmer and tattoo artist.. I am barely unlocking iPad Pro to its full potential .. your videos help me decide which to use.. thank you keep videos coming What best editor do you recommend?

[@tech_craft]

I have two good options. I like using Kodex but I also really like using Vim inside the A-Shell app

[@chinarut]

@@tech_craft how is Codex different from Textastic u mentioned in the video? (other than being 1/10 the price :)

[@eallen8550]

Wow!! Liked and subbed. I have Googled this topic so many times and got nowhere. Where have you been??

[@tech_craft]

Building up the courage to get on camera!!

[@eallen8550]

Glad you got there. Going through your back catalogue now and just downloaded Pythonista and Working Copy. Been meaning to learn Flask for a while and now have a reason!

[@esmeraldalobos9744]

Amazinggggg thank you!

[@amrittiwary080689]

Thanks Rob for this insight. Have you looked at how to do python Data science work on newer iphone like 12/11 possibly using iphone as a typical desktop.

[@AgentZeroNine1]

Hoping to see a similar video for the Surface Pro X.

[@tech_craft]

I wish I had one to try out!

[@michaelfishwick-b8u]

Thank you.😊

[@drmariopepper4354]

I like your videos. Subbed

[@richlepik8587]

Any recommendations on how to practice java coding on the iPad, please? Thanks

[@DavidThomas453]

For learning python, would you use pythonista on the iPad or would you use a program on the pi that is connected to the iPad. I have a Rasp pi 4 that works with my iPad by following one of your other videos.

[@charlymendez]

Hi Rob. Thanks for sharing your experience, this is a really great video with useful information. I’m a Java developer, do you know if there is an option for coding in Java with autocompletion and some other IDE’s features? I’m not expecting an IntelliJ or Eclipse but with autocompletion, automatic import and syntax check it would be great (and if you can run some unit tests I’d be in heaven). Thanks in advance for your answer. Best regards

[@davidgodinez7146]

Amazing! Got a new subscriber!

[@BrianWarkentine]

No fluff, just the facts, awesome. ... also, Not sure about having projects in both github and iCloud, seems a hack to get around a limitation.

[@tech_craft]

Glad you liked it. The iCloud thing is absolutely a hack. Hopefully there will be a rev of Pythonista soon that removes the need.

[@iLLuSioNJava]

i really love your video. i have a some question. - Can i use a python virtualenv on Pythonista 3 ? - "Working Copy" can use "git" from another provider or my private git server ? Thank you for your answer

[@ricardokullock2535]

I would love to see how to use iVim too!

[@therealdx4472]

I really liked the video but as an improvement, I would suggest that you integrate time stamps so your viewers can find the content they look for more easily.

[@yashsengar.5847]

Get this guy more subscribers!!

[@pgtips4240]

Great video but just one problem, I don’t want to code in python. :)

[@kushagrgoyal]

Loved the video. Very cool. is it possible to install modules like numpy, scikit learn etc on the ipad?

[@tech_craft]

Some apps limits which modules you can install, but in general, you can install any pure python module. For modules with native extensions, you typically need your Python app to support that module out of the box.