![]() The app will simply stop responding at random points while I'm typing and not respond until I force quit and restart the app. I've had quite a few crashes that I just can't explain. First, the app is very prone to crashing. Not all is rosebuds and blue skies though, as Coda has quite a few issues that make it less than ideal for all circumstances. They not only save me keystrokes, but remind me of "what was that thing called again?" time and time again. All the languages I work in (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP) are all best in class. I'm also a big fan of Coda's code completion interface. It's liberating to have this much control, and I miss these features when I go back to my Mac. You can do everything from change the syntax mode, text encoding, theme, line wraps, spell checking, and more by tapping on the expand icon. Those tabs aren't just for show, they have power hidden inside them too. It's not unusual for me to have 5 or more files I'm hopping back and forth between, and Coda is stupid fast at getting me from one document to the other with ease. ![]() I can navigate my files quickly and open them directly in Coda.Ĭoda is very good at editing multiple files at the same time. Coda for iOS has a very good file manager built into the code editor. Why I still have not been able to find a good package for Sublime to let me edit documents on my server is beyond me. On my Mac, I have Transmit opened as my file manager and Sublime is my editor. Coda on iOS is a shockingly good replacement for Sublime, and in some ways it's much better.įirst off, Coda does a far better job of handling on-server file handling than I have ever experienced with Sublime Text. Sublime Text is a great, traditional text editor that is more than capable of doing what I need it to do. CodaĬoda ($9.99) has a Mac counterpart, but I've never really used it. Everything in my workflow is new, and I'd be lying if I said I took it well. That's why switching to the iPad to develop the new version of BirchTree (coming within a matter of weeks!) was hard on me. Just like some people always wear the same outfit or eat the same breakfast everyday, I feel like my tried and tested workflow allows me to focus on the code, not how I'm making the code. I work really fast, and I've done that by not changing much in my workflow for years. I command-tab rapidly as I upload files, edit documents, and refresh my browser over and over and over and over. My current workflow involves Sublime Text, Transmit, Finder, and Safari. I won't lie, as someone who has years of experience and workflows built up for writing code for the web on my Mac, the transition was not effortless. So can you write code and develop a website on your iPad? Yes, but. ![]() The feeling being that anyone who spends their days in Sublime Text on their computer and is FTPing into their server all day could never make it work on iOS. One thing that always seems to come up in these conversations, and this is likely more due to who tends to write these articles, is writing code. Last month's release of the iPad Pro got more people questioning what can and can't be done on an iPad, and I want to explore that idea more in this series. The iPad has long been criticized for being a "consumption device" and that "real work" still needs to happen on a desktop computer. This is part 1 in a new series on the site about some false notions out there about what you can and can't do on the iPad.
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