Making My own App

[eaglescout]

Hi

I have a few ideas for an app, and I know quite a bit about computers. Can anyone tell me how I can make an app? Price or Time is not a problem. If anyone knows of a good guide or can provide good instructions, please let me know. You can post here, or email me at: eragon@infowest.com

Thanks in advance,
James

[masterell]

Please search. Been asked at least 3 times a week.

[eaglescout]

Thanks for the uh... help?

[m3coolpix]

iPhone Application Development (http://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Application-Development-Dummies-Computers/dp/0470487372/ref=pd_sim_b_5)

Even if this book doesn't work for you, there's plenty of alternate suggestions.

Seriously though, Google works. ;)

Cheers!

[dejo]

Also, check out the Guides and Stickies at the top of this very forum (http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=135).

[moral-hazard]

Hi

I have a few ideas for an app, and I know quite a bit about computers. Can anyone tell me how I can make an app? Price or Time is not a problem. If anyone knows of a good guide or can provide good instructions, please let me know. You can post here, or email me at: eragon@infowest.com

Thanks in advance,
James

As stated above..you kind of have to search.
Alot of people reccomend the book "Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK" (I believe thats the title). I used it to start. I would reccomend learning objective-C syntax BEFORE going into this book.

Learning how to make an iPhone app (correctly) is not as easy as it may seem. Experience with programming languages (especially C, object oriented languages, and MVC based development) is very helpful.

Making an app is fairly complex, and can't be explained in one post. For example, how atomic would the explanation be? "Turn on your computer, open XCode, ...."

Additionally, how to "make" your app will vary depending on what your'e doing. You can create various "types" of applications in XCode with the SDK. For a simple application, you could get away with a single view and viewcontroller handling everything in the application, and you could build alot of the UI in interface builder without writing much code. The iPhone book is decent for this - I only made it halfway through before losing interest, but the first few chapters go through various approaches for different types of applications.

[eaglescout]

Wow. Thanks guys!

2 more Q's...

1. How much time would it take for a basic-learned app developer to make a simple app like "Awesome facts" or "Tic tac toe"?

2. It is just the $99 for the basic tools and 1 yr apple dev contract that you have to pay to make an app, or do you have to buy other programs/ect also?

Thanks again everyone!

[boyplunder]

1. How much time would it take for a basic-learned app developer to make a simple app like "Awesome facts" or "Tic tac toe"?

My first app was a dictionary-type app [list view and a detail view for each word in the list.] that first took me about four months to learn all of the programming bits I needed, including SQLite, then a month to build an app that actually worked, then a couple of months to rebuild it when I realised it needed to be worth buying and look good and get all of the data [editted!] in it.

2. It is just the $99 for the basic tools and 1 yr apple dev contract that you have to pay to make an app, or do you have to buy other programs/ect also?

You can download the SDK for free just by registering as a developer. You can build and learn at your own pace, but you will need to enroll as a developer for $99 before you can submit anything to the appstore.

Hope this helps.

[JimBobBennett]

If price and time is not a problem, then it takes years, costs £1million payable to me... :D

Kit wise, the $99 is all assuming you have an Intel based Mac. If not, then you'll need to get one.

[jguru]

please use the search feature there are many threads regarding this.

Another useful resource is to check out the faq section.

[eaglescout]

Kit wise, the $99 is all assuming you have an Intel based Mac. If not, then you'll need to get one.

Do you Need a mac, or can you use an intel core duo windows?

I have a windows XP INSPIRON, as well as a Windows XP, and an iMac.

I don't want to mess up my iMac, could I just use one of the windows, or does it require a Mac?

[eaglescout]

Also, would this MacBook (http://www.apple.com/macbook/) Work?

[dejo]

Do you Need a mac, or can you use an intel core duo windows?
No, you need a Mac. The iPhone SDK only runs on an Intel Mac.

Also, would this MacBook (http://www.apple.com/macbook/) Work?
Yep, that'll be fine.

[eaglescout]

Also, how much memory would be needed to do this?

[eaglescout]

Also, how much memory would be needed to do this?

The memory is the main factor if I get a new mac or not.

[dejo]

Also, how much memory would be needed to do this?
The 2GB of RAM that the MacBook comes with should be plenty sufficient for iPhone development.