Episode 5: Dringend With Josh Garnham

Josh Garnham joins me to talk about his app Dringend. Dringend is an iOS development environment for the iPad, the lets you create, edit, build and run Xcode Projects right on your iPad.

Josh started out as a Mac developer, but eventually found he preferred developing for iOS.

Josh started to learn how to make Mac apps about 5 years ago from a simple book he quickly outgrew. He then continued by rolling up his sleeves and jumping right into the code, using StackOverflow as his go to place for questions along the way. After a few years developing for the Mac he decided to try out the iOS side of things. Josh told me he soon preferred developing for iOS and has continued to do so since. In his free time, he also enjoys the odd episode of Star Trek and Mythbusters as well as spending some time on a Flight Simulator.

Write code, build it, and test run it right from the comfort of your favorite armchair, all on your iPad.

Dringend is an app development environment for the iPad. You can create and edit complete Xcode projects and source files right on your iPad. Dringend offers all the same project templates, color themes, and source code syntax highlights available in Xcode. Lastly, as if this wasn't already cool enough, Dringend uses Dropbox and a Mac on your network running the free companion app, The Constructor, to actually compile and test run the app right on the same iPad, using your developer account credentials.

Josh's App Story talks about how he was inspired to simply be able to make quick revisions to existing code, that grew to be so much more.

Josh told me Dringend began life simply as a code editor using Core Text at it’s roots, but over the time of development this changed to use TextKit (as of iOS 7). The ability to import and navigate Xcode projects was added along the way with all the other key features we see today including remote building (which in itself had many incarnations).

Contact Links:

• Dringend Website
• Dringend on Twitter
• Josh on Twitter
• Vic on Twitter
• App Story on Twitter

Support Josh & the show by using this link to get Dringend on the App Store

• Dringend on the App Store

Additional links:

• Don't forget to download The Constructor for your mac to enable building and running the projects on the device
• SquaredTiki on the web - Josh's Company website

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