Microsoft released TouchStudio a month back much to delight of thousands of WP7 device owners. Basically touch studio enabled users to create tiny yet useful scripts with barely any coding experience required, something which isn’t common on other mobile platforms.
Script your phone! TouchStudio is a radically new software development environment on the Windows Phone, bringing the excitement of the first programmable personal computers to the phone. Bring your songs and pictures to life, and use the sensors on the phone. You write code by tapping on the screen. TouchStudio comes with many samples that you can tweak.
Here is the Release Note for Ver. 1.1 beta :
- Many bug fixes
- Better auto-completion in expression editor
- Access to accelerometer, location, maps, translation services, web search, tile customization, charting, and more.
Notable new APIs:
- senses->acceleration quick/smooth/stable: Access to accelerometer
- locations->*: Access to GPS/geo-coordinates
- maps->*: Access to Bing maps
- languages->*: Access to Bing- and Hawaii-based translation services
- web->search *: Searching the web with Bing
- tile->*: Configuration of script tile properties
- math->create number map: charting functionality
Notable API changes:
| old API | new API |
| engine->assert | time->fail if not |
| engine->stop | time->stop |
| phone->sleep | time->sleep |
| phone->now | time->now |
| json->get field | json->field |
| json->get boolean | json->boolean |
| json->get number | json->number |
| json->get string | json->string |
| senses->snap camera picture | senses->take camera picture |
| senses->has camerea picture | senses->has taken camera picture |
| senses->camera picture | senses->taken camera picture |
| web->deep zoom link | web->link deep zoom |
| web->hyperlink | web->link url |
| web->image link | web->link image |
In short, more access. More the merrier, I say. Do show us what you come up with !
