Abstract: A software development method entails providing an application development environment on a mobile device connected to a computing device such as a desktop or laptop computer that provides a browser acting as a code editor for writing code. The code input via a keyboard of the computing device is transferred to the mobile device and compiled by the application development environment. If the code is unsuitable for local compiling, the code is transmitted to a code-compiling server. Within the application development environment, recognizable gestures may be used for fast coding. In other words, the mobile device may be programmed to recognize a gesture, to determine code corresponding to the gesture and to cause the mobile device to display the code corresponding to the gesture. For example, a swipe gesture may be used to insert a particular character not found on a hard or virtual keyboard of the mobile device.

Abstract: A method, device and computer readable memory for interaction with a graphical user interface of a computing device associated with a touch-sensitive input device is provided. Proximity information of an object performing a gesture in relation to the graphical user information is used in predicting one or more possible gesture events that may occur with the touch-sensitive input device. The predicted gesture events are used to initiate or pre-cache possible gesture events that would occur with the graphical user interface to provide a more responsive graphical user interface when the gesture event does occur.