Scantlings

If you have an idea for an app, How do you go about making one? Can you download software to DIY or do you give the concept to someone and they develop it for you?
The Idea I have is actually very simple and in the right hands wouldn't be very hard to create.
I don't even have a smart phone myself so I'm possibly not the best person to go forward with the concept.

How do you go about this?

Jeroen

There's a few routes:

iOS development (cost $)

Windows Phone SDK (cost 0)

Android SDK (cost 0)

and yes, you do need to know how to program

floating dutchman wrote:If you have an idea for an app, How do you go about making one? Can you download software to DIY or do you give the concept to someone and they develop it for you?
The Idea I have is actually very simple and in the right hands wouldn't be very hard to create.
I don't even have a smart phone myself so I'm possibly not the best person to go forward with the concept.

How do you go about this?

Jeroen

Software can be quite tricky in that way, actually. Ideas that seem very simple can be complex under the hood, and something you might think is really complicated can end up being really simple.

Programming is necessary to unlock the real power of the devices you're building on, but there are technologies (such as http://www.andromo.com/ that allow anyone to build basic applications, regardless of skill level. You might try playing around with those. It's also possible to develop, simulate, and launch an application using only a regular computer - no mobile device is necessary (though testing on a real device never hurts).

I'm thinking we should make Alex the leader of the WLYDO application development department....

BeauV wrote:I'm thinking we should make Alex the leader of the WLYDO application development department....

Is there an app for that???

BeauV wrote:I'm thinking we should make Alex the leader of the WLYDO application development department....

Just make sure the appointing letter has the standard "IP belongs to the WLYDO" clause.

LarryHoward wrote:

BeauV wrote:I'm thinking we should make Alex the leader of the WLYDO application development department....

Just make sure the appointing letter has the standard "IP belongs to the WLYDO" clause.

LOL
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