BASIC for Android

I remember trying this one and thinking that the language was fine(it is literally an update from the makers of the Atari 8-bit BASIC) but the UI is unsuitable as it uses generic Android text input, the same flaw shared by most every other on-device IDE I&#x27;ve tried. That doesn&#x27;t just mean that it&#x27;s crude, it&#x27;s also buggy - the view desynchronizes when editing large bodies of text using that text control.<p>What touchscreen programming needs is a really polished touchscreen UI, and that challenges the whole assumption of a text editor being ergonomically optimal.

There&#x27;s also this one, which seems to be a bit more of a structured approach: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.mobilebasic.freeversion&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.mobilebasi...</a><p>The trouble I always wind up having with these though is you quickly discover that it&#x27;s a huge pain in the ass trying to type code on an Android touch keyboard. Even in the days you could still get physical keyboards it was hardly pleasant. I just wind up writing a couple basic &quot;Hello World&quot; programs and get bored.

This is great. BASIC was my first programming language on a TI-92 calculator. It provides an invitation to new would-be programmers to explore writing code. Having it available on Android just opens the door for more people to try.

I seem to recall that back when Android was new, Google was pitching a web based RAD tool to develop simple apps.

&quot;This item cannot be installed in your device&#x27;s country&quot; (Turkey)<p>Is this intentional?

There&#x27;s a BASIC development tool called B4A which can be used as a RAD tool. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.b4x.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.b4x.com</a>

One of the things that keeps Android in my phone is the ability to load languages: Ruby, J, Forth, Octave, Clojure...now Basic. I want a supercomputer in my pocket, not a curated garden.

Haven&#x27;t worked on it for a while, but see also www.hecl.org

BASIC. It&#x27;s still a fun language for toys and prototypes, and Dijkstra is a moron for saying it ruins programmers, but on the other hand, it is kind of rubbish.

This would be awesome on a priv.

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