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Anybody make apps?

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*This might be suited better for another forum but it seemed fitting with Apps and Games*

I'm looking to make Apps (and a twitterbot) and was wondering if anybody else here has done it before?
 
*This might be suited better for another forum but it seemed fitting with Apps and Games*

I'm looking to make Apps (and a twitterbot) and was wondering if anybody else here has done it before?

I don't know what a twiterbot is but I have a few wonderful Apps I could tell you about.

First, how about a nice cilantro lime shrimp w/tomato butter on crustini? Eh? Sounds fab right?

Next, we'll go with good old fashion Rumaki ; water chestnuts, fois gras and bacon in a ginger soy bbq sauce....

What? Oh, Apps?!?! Those kinda Apps...


Nope. sorry can't help ya...
 
apps for what?
android or iOS?

EDIT: or windows phone?... but you know... ha ha.
 
apps for what?
android or iOS?

EDIT: or windows phone?... but you know... ha ha.

Whaaaaaaaaatttt??????? Windows phone doesn't have a following? Say it aint so.
 
Whaaaaaaaaatttt??????? Windows phone doesn't have a following? Say it aint so.

It's kinda a shame because windows 8 is good for phones. It's just not good as a desktop OS.

but nobody is developing stuff for it except you know... Nokia... because Microsoft owns them. Which if the only company that supporting windows 8 phones is your own company... that kinda sends a bad message.

They're suffering from the same problem that blackberry had. Blackberry is a good product. A very safe product. But if your company is the only who does stuff for it and there is no "indie" programmers and no following... you're kinda gonna get screwed unless you can pull some massive PR. like apple can. Apple can pull massive PR for its iphones.
 
apps for what?
android or iOS?

EDIT: or windows phone?... but you know... ha ha.

I was gonna start on iOS and eventually collaborate with a friend in college to go cross platform. But I don't know yet, I still have to learn Java
 
I was gonna start on iOS and eventually collaborate with a friend in college to go cross platform. But I don't know yet, I still have to learn Java

Your average phone app has about 50k lines of code.

Java is the cross-platform language but for iOS most people use objective-c .
Java is mostly used for android app development. Ofc, if you know Java you can cross over and learn C and objective-c more easily.

You'll also need the SDK for iOS development and some info. Here are some useful links.
some guy who offers some insight:
Design Then Code: Building iOS Apps From Scratch

From apple:
https://developer.apple.com/library...l.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011343-CH3-SW1
https://developer.apple.com/library...ogrammingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

And here is the developer toolkit:
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/

for iOS 7.

It's going to take a while ,a few months until you become familiar with the programming language and then it'll take time to develop it. Don't get frustrated or give up. Think of it as learning an actual new language with rigid syntax norms and vocabulary. Like all languages, you need time and practice to master it.
Best of luck.
 
Your average phone app has about 50k lines of code.

Java is the cross-platform language but for iOS most people use objective-c .
Java is mostly used for android app development. Ofc, if you know Java you can cross over and learn C and objective-c more easily.

You'll also need the SDK for iOS development and some info. Here are some useful links.
some guy who offers some insight:
Design Then Code: Building iOS Apps From Scratch

From apple:
https://developer.apple.com/library...l.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011343-CH3-SW1
https://developer.apple.com/library...ogrammingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

And here is the developer toolkit:
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/

for iOS 7.

It's going to take a while ,a few months until you become familiar with the programming language and then it'll take time to develop it. Don't get frustrated or give up. Think of it as learning an actual new language with rigid syntax norms and vocabulary. Like all languages, you need time and practice to master it.
Best of luck.

Thank you! I just started learning Python (for the Twitterbot).

I didn't realize it was THAT much code. But then again thats basically a long essay which, as a college student, I am adept at doing haha. I was just looking to make money in my down time at school if possible. Thank you for the links though!
 
Thank you! I just started learning Python (for the Twitterbot).

I didn't realize it was THAT much code. But then again thats basically a long essay which, as a college student, I am adept at doing haha. I was just looking to make money in my down time at school if possible. Thank you for the links though!

Python is really good stuff. But don't mix and match them. Think of it as learning spanish and portugesse at the same time. You'll see some similarities but then you'll fail to understand and fully grasp the differences and you'll mismatch words. So better you nail one down and then move on because it's easier to cross over and understand another programming language if you already have 1 under your belt.

Like C++ and Java. If you know one, it gonna be super easy to understand the other.
 
Thank you! I just started learning Python (for the Twitterbot).

I didn't realize it was THAT much code. But then again thats basically a long essay which, as a college student, I am adept at doing haha. I was just looking to make money in my down time at school if possible. Thank you for the links though!

Ya, wait till you are trying to "correct" the essay, and looking through 100 pages of code to find one spot you put a ',' instead of a '.' Or a capital letter by mistake...
 
Ya, wait till you are trying to "correct" the essay, and looking through 100 pages of code to find one spot you put a ',' instead of a '.' Or a capital letter by mistake...

Thats precisely why I'm hoping to collaborate with someone(s) haha. I watched a person troubleshoot a website him and his friends were making and it looked awful
 
Ya, wait till you are trying to "correct" the essay, and looking through 100 pages of code to find one spot you put a ',' instead of a '.' Or a capital letter by mistake...

Don't they have software for that?
 
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