AsciiDots is a little language created by Aaronduino. You create little pictures with ascii characters and uses special characters to modify values and print out to the console. It's pretty fun and simple.
I like to program when I'm out and about but it's a hassle on a phone's small screen. AsciiDots is requires only a small character set for the majority of the program and only requires a python interpreter to run.
I thought it'd be a fun challenge to implement an Android and iOS app to program AsciiDots on the go. Here's my attempt at the iOS app.
So this in itself is not an easy task. There's not a lot of documentation on it recently. But if somehow you got here from googling, then I've got a working project that you can use. Clone this repo and take it back to the first commit. Then download the frameworks needed for python here. Thanks to Pybee for conveniently packaging them up for us. Note this this is Python 3.5 and that if you need a later version, I think Pybee has a script for packaging other versions in his/her repo: https://github.com/pybee/Python-Apple-support. Anyways, unzip the tar and copy the four frameworks into a folder called Python-35. Then place that folder in the same folder that the .xcodeproj file is located in. You should now be able to load the app on your phone and see "Hello world" output on the console. Below are diagnostic statements I used to find the python framework in the bundle and set the PYTHONHOME variable.
NSString *documentsPath = [bundlePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Frameworks"];
NSError * error;
NSArray * directoryContents = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:bundlePath error:&error];
NSLog(@"directoryContents ====== %@",directoryContents);