Where do people learn how to create apps for Apple and Android Products?

[Lostlover]

I have two super ideas for apps that could work for both Androids and Apple products. I would just hate to have to hire someone to make it and then pay money to market the two apps.

Both apps are million dollar ideas.

 

[JB3]

You would need to learn the programming languages for each, and then know how to use the SDK. If you're willing to put the time into learning them, you could do it yourself. Otherwise, it might be a pain in the ass.

 

[MindBlast]

Basically what JB3 said.

Step 1: Learn2program (easier said than done, took me a few years to get good at it)

Step 2: Acquire the software development kit (SDK) or application programming interface (API) if they have one.

Step 3: Write code.

Step 4: Test code.

Step 5: Fix bugs. (again easier said than done)

Step 6: ???

Step 7: Profit.

 

[T-Rexx]

Apple, Microsoft, and most other phone platforms are highly restrictive about who is allowed to write apps for their respective platforms. Even if you were to go to school and learn to program, you would still have to get approval as a developer. They have lots of requirements. With Apple, for example, you are (weirdly) not permitted to write code in a room that has windows. With Microsoft, there is a substantial fee you must pay MS for the privilege of writing apps for their phone platform. And, even after you have learned how to program and qualified as a developer and written your app and paid your fees, you still must get approval to market your app in their stores (even if your app is free). Apple is particularly notorious for kicking apps written by outside developers out of their store and replacing them with their own versions.

If these are truly "million dollar ideas," your best bet is to carefuly lay out how you want your program to work, then hire someone to write it for you.

There is an interesting alternative for Android, but it is not really intended for "million dollar ideas" that you want to sell commercially. Google Labs has developed an app to allow nonprogrammers to write apps for Android. It's called "App Inventor" and it is a graphical environment for developing Android applications on your desktop computer without writing code. App Inventor is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), and it's free.

You might be able to use App Inventor to create "preview" versions of your plans, so that you can get some ideas, see how it looks on the phone, and show other people how you want it to work.


http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

 

[Lostlover]

Well, this isn't the news I wanted to hear but I'm still not discouraged.

One app I have in mind will make you think "why didn't someone think of this years ago?"

 

[T-Rexx]

 

[GamerBear]

My Aunt works on iPhone apps, I helped her design one of their apps. I heard that you have to know the code and then for Apple you need to pay to download their program and upload it to Apple Store to get it accepted by Apple if it gets accepted then it shoes up on their App Store.

She wanted me to design apps for the Windows Phone but it seems that the Windows phone is not really picking up like all the other phones so I stopped trying to figure out the application. I just know that it comes with an emulator that acts just like the phone to test out your app if you were finished with it.

 

[GamerBear]

About 18 months ago, someone suggested I look into making apps. But I didnt know you need at MAC computer so I didnt follow it up

To make iPhone apps yeah you do. Totally sucks. Glad they didn't require you to have a Mac to sync your iPhone or else I would be super pissed.