TouchStudio–Script your Phone on Your Phone

OK you have a smart phone and you want to create an application for it. But you don’t have a computer handy so what do you do? From Microsoft Research here is one possibility  Touch Studio.

TouchStudio is a scripting language that you can use to create apps for your phone on your phone. use the various features of your phone like touch and movement to control resources on your phone like your pictures, music and videos. The possibilities are, well, they are pretty cool.

Here is a video demo courtesy of Channel 9.

In this video, Nikolai Tillmann and Michal Moskal, from the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) at Microsoft Research, present TouchStudio for Windows Phone 7. TouchStudio is a radically new Windows Phone software development environment, bringing the excitement of the first programmable personal computers to the phone. Now you can write code for your phone on your phone!

To whet your appetite a bit here are some screen shots.

Oh and these are the same people who are behind Pex4Fun, also available as a WP7 game.