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Creo — Design & Development process into a single easy to use app
Creo is a next generation Mac tool which aims to combine the Design and Development process into a single easy to use application. Thanks to our CreoKIT we always use NATIVE components and classes, no simulated or web based code is used.
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Interface can be fully customized using custom views. We haven't yet documented that feature but you can get a preview of the usage in a couple of blog post (http://blog.creolabs.com/2015/12... and http://blog.creolabs.com/2015/12...).
@vectormein Have you tried Thunkable.com? It's for android. I've really enjoyed hacking on it.
This is a really nice app that came out of private beta today. It merges design and development into a single process so that you can get a prototype built quickly.
This app looks pretty promising. What kind of REST APIs does it work with and the app it builds, is it JS or what?
@mrahmadawais everything is native so on Mac/iOS only objc and swift is used.
Would love to try it out. Signed up a few days ago but i've not gotten a d/l link yet.
This looks really cool, do you plan on launching a Windows version at any point? (rules me out for now).
@braunshizzle no Windows version is planned anytime soon... we'll see in the future.
You wrote "we are able to execute any iOS code under Mac". In the same way as simulator does? If not, why not use the simulator to run your code?
Ton of potential. I've seen a few apps that tried and fell short of the mark here, but it's the holy grail of design in my opinion to get an app that would allow me to develop to a point where a dev could do all of the backend work.
Looking forward to trying this out!
@vukidrock all invites has already been sent, please send me an email to marco at creolabs dot com
Want to give this a try, is the demo still available? I entered my email, but still haven't received a download link.
It's looking good, but frankly I don't have time to give it a serious test.
I'm hoping to see some independent reviews summing up the pros and cons to figure if I should dive deeper into this
@mmariansky it's a beta released with some undocumented features...personally I think right now you can use it to create mockups of apps that you might want to build for fun an pleasure, as time passes within the next couple of months and the unveiling of the other features it might become a really great way to have non-developers but tech-savvy people develop apps that could easily end up on the app-store.
I'm also writing a longer write-up on my experience so far..
Lacks in customization of UI, like Inventor there should be an option to adjust UI to personal taste.
@jacksitt yes, most common operations will be visual in order to speed up development but everything can also be created/manipulated using a programming language.
@sqlabs How do you see this being used across design / development teams on an ongoing basis? As a developer, I wouldn't be thrilled about taking over generated code and then having to make sure my code changes don't break the tool. I also would hate it if I kept getting new generated code being introduced into the codebase that I'm trying to maintain and having to constantly go back to refactor, add unit tests, etc. What process are you recommending that cross-disciplinary teams use when using your tool?
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