iOS First time app developing?

Firstly, you need a mac to develop for iOS. Secondly, you should register as Apple Developer (free) and get xcode (your development environment) all set up. Once that is done, you can learn some objective C basics, it's a little different than other languages.

Here's a great reference site:
http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/

After that, I'd suggest looking for the stanford iphone development classes online. You can grab all the videos and pdf files that go with them through "iTunes U". Go over them and try out the examples. They're done pretty awesome, it'll feel like your taking a distance education class kinda and the best part is, it's free.

Darthtroll

It's free to register and become an Apple Developer.
It's free to download Xcode and sample code.

However, it costs $99 to enroll in the Apple Developer program. This is the program that is basically the deployment or final stage of your app. You don't need to pay this until your app is done basically.

Darthtroll

Read this

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/518968/

If you have zero experience programming, you will likely have to learn to program first, or you may well find yourself way over your head with app development.

Find an educational programming environment, maybe even one for kids or students, and learn that before tackling iOS apps. XCode, Objective C and the Cocoa Touch frameworks were not designed for educational purposes or with an easy learning curve. After you've learned to program in some gentler environment, iOS development will become a much more tractable hurdle.

Is there some way to add this to the forum sticky (of which I'm the original author)?

firewood said:

Is there some way to add this to the forum sticky (of which I'm the original author)?

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I don't see why you can't. That stickied thread is not closed.