Creating Apps for iPad, iPhone and iTouch?

[Brother John]

Anyone on the PB have any experience creating Apps? I have a list of several App ideas that I cannot find in the Apple App store that I would like to create. How does one go about creating Apps?

 

[SolaScriptura]

I'd love to know.

 

[Brother John]

Anyone created Android Apps also?

 

[jfschultz]

The official route:

1. Get a Mac
2. Signup as a developer
3. Download the development kit
4. Learn Objective-C and the iOS application framework.
5. Start coding

The development kit includes an emulator that runs on the Mac which can get you a long way down the road. The $99 is required to get the "key" to install it on your iPad or publish it in the App Store. This $99 is per year, so I would put that off until you see how things progress. If you do publish to the App Store, you get 70% of the sales, Apple gets 30% to cover their costs of running the store.

 

[Skyler]

Hackaday.com ran a series of tutorials on writing apps for Android. Here's the first one:

Android Development 101

 

[Curt]

Hackaday.com ran a series of tutorials on writing apps for Android. Here's the first one:

Android Development 101

Is this how Data (of StarTrek fame) was developed?

 

[Skyler]

Hackaday.com ran a series of tutorials on writing apps for Android. Here's the first one:

Android Development 101

Is this how Data (of StarTrek fame) was developed?

"Will be" developed. Get your chronology straight. =P

 

[Brother John]

Thanks form the posts. I do not have a Mac yet, does anyone know if I could use my iPad instead? I imagine I could start with the android until I get a Mac. How hard is it to "roll over" an app from android to apple?