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My wife has a iPad and I was wondering if I could use it to develop iPad applications? I am assuming the answer is no.
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AppCooker requires iOS 7 and iPad; AppCooker's designer doesn't work on iPhones, though you can design iPhone apps with it on iPads.
In 2019, I wrote a guide to coding web apps on the iPad Pro — which was finally feasible for the first time albeit slightly fiddly— but since then it's gotten significantly easier to code on the iPad, thanks to a new wave of development tools and improvements to Apple's Safari browser on iPadOS.
To develop iOS apps, you need a Mac computer running the latest version of Xcode. Xcode is Apple's IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for both Mac and iOS apps. Xcode is the graphical interface you'll use to write iOS apps.
Apple's development guidelines ban apps of this type from the store, so no you unfortunately cannot use the iPad to make iPad software (You can test the programs you write on your Mac on the iPad though). You need a Mac and the XCode IDE to actually create iPad / iPhone applications. You can learn more about this at http://developer.apple.com/
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While it isn't possible to directly write code that runs on the iPad, you certainly can write code on the device itself. There is an app available in the app store called CodeToGo that lets you author programs in quite a few different languages. When you want to run your program, the code is actually uploaded to a server, executed there, and the results of that run are returned to you. This, or a similar program, is the closest you will currently get to writing code on the iPad (or iPhone).
Here is an article that talks about / reviews code editing programs for iOS.
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Take a look at Codify. Not the whole 'write anything, run anywhere' experience, but a step in that direction.
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