Starting up with Xcode

You're app shouldn't be that hard to produce. Look up things like table views, navigation controllers, text fields, image views, text views and scroll views

 

OP how much programming experience do you have? If you don't have much (or any) you will need to start with learning Objective-C, then Cocoa Touch.

 

Need to be an app or would HTML "enough" ?

If an app is really required then Shawnpk gave the right buzzwords to start. Apple provide quite some samples and templates which gives a good start.

 

For the app you want to make, you should grab an programming book for iPhone.
Should take you a week (well, normally less), to get through the whole book, if you understand the basics, another week to get through the basis off your app.
So aprox 2 weeks (without thorough design etc.)

 

Xcode is an application used to do Mac and iOS programming. The bulk of learning to write iOS apps is not learning how to use Xcode, it's learning how to program. Just like learning how to use Photoshop doesn't mean you're a graphic designer, learning Xcode isn't the same as learning how to program.

You really do need to learn the basics of Objective-C programming, and how to use the Cocoa Touch frameworks. Xcode itself is just a tool to help you program.

My favorite book for Objective-C is Stephen Kochan's Programming in Objective-C: http://amzn.com/0321711394 . That is a really good way to learn Objective-C itself. You'll also need to learn the Cocoa Touch APIs. I don't have a book recommendation for that since I came to iOS after being a Mac programmer when iOS programming was brand new, but there are lots and lots of iOS programming books out there.

With all that said, I don't think your app looks very hard to do *for a programmer*, but you need to be prepared for a fairly steep learning curve while you're just getting started. That's not meant to discourage you, just trying to keep your expectations realistic.

 

I haven't looked into this feature at all yet, but would Storyboard (of Xcode 4.2) generate enough code automatically for the OP that he/she wouldn't hardly have to write any?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORaYTsbYJjs

In a week, maybe two they make you a star...

 

Thats a common misconception. Pretty much anything in programming is hard at first.

In order to use buttons and pictures you have to understand how Cocoa works, how to connect those buttons to functions through outlets and such. To make those functions (which control what happens when the button is pressed) you have to understand Objective-C, data types, looping, etc.

I'm not saying its not possible, but you will have some work ahead of you.

A great book for getting started with all this (that has you making an iPhone app in the end) is the Big Nerd Ranch Objective-C book. It starts off with basic C concepts so you can understand how to program, moves to Objective-C, and then to Cocoa. A friend of mine bought this book and he is a complete beginner and has been having a great time with it.

Even though Apple makes it easy to design a GUI interface (by providing a TON of functionality for you) you will still need to know how to program. This book will help get you there pretty fast.