Learning to program mobile apps

[Heisenbleurgh]

Hi everyone, I've been into programming for years now but have focused on desktop and website apps so far and decided to test the mobile app waters. I'm gonna be watching youtube tutorials and might buy a book or two, but if anyone has first hand experience with tutorials or video series they found effective feel free to share. Any tips about environments or anything really are welcome too.

Thanks!

[WanderingFool]

Any particular type of app you are planning to make?  Android or IOS? (As they are quite different)

 

If you are looking for games and android, I used a tutorial that I liked....I will see if I can find it again (I will edit my post if I do)

[Heisenbleurgh]

Any particular type of app you are planning to make?  Android or IOS? (As they are quite different)

 

If you are looking for games and android, I used a tutorial that I liked....I will see if I can find it again (I will edit my post if I do)

Nothing specific, I'm interested in trying out what I can do. I'd like to learn both, but one at a time obviously. I guess I'd go with Android first since I don't have iOS devices to run apps natively in

Thanks!

[SirPaul]

Hi , first of all congratulations for going mobile

 

Now to cook android APP you will need :
Java knowledge
This tutorials to setup and learn all about android and stuff .
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/android.html

You can use any IDE, but i prefer Android Studio (developed by google, built on IntelliJ ).  It is really great tool, and i prefer it before Eclipse, which was constantly crashing.

 

Basically it works like this, you will install Android SDK,  if you have android device its good, if you dont have, Android sdk comes with emulators for android device .

 

Android Studio IDE built's you a Hello World example, which you can run perfectly.  and then you will just add code to it:).

If you would like to code some realy nice graphical games, i suggest you to look into Unity where you can code any game and just publish it to Android.  

But for software without much graphical usage its okay to use the Android SDK.

 

[Heisenbleurgh]

Hi , first of all congratulations for going mobile

 

Now to cook android APP you will need :

Java knowledge

This tutorials to setup and learn all about android and stuff .

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/android.html

You can use any IDE, but i prefer Android Studio (developed by google, built on IntelliJ ).  It is really great tool, and i prefer it before Eclipse, which was constantly crashing.

 

Basically it works like this, you will install Android SDK,  if you have android device its good, if you dont have, Android sdk comes with emulators for android device .

 

Android Studio IDE built's you a Hello World example, which you can run perfectly.  and then you will just add code to it:).

If you would like to code some realy nice graphical games, i suggest you to look into Unity where you can code any game and just publish it to Android.  

But for software without much graphical usage its okay to use the Android SDK.

 

I downloaded the Android Studio and will play around with it and the configuration later today. Thanks a lot, I'm already excited!

[WanderingFool]

Finally found the link again, if you want to make games.  http://www.learnopengles.com/category/android-tutorials/

There are probably others that are better, but this is the one I worked with and like (this assumes you have android all setup and stuff though)

[SirPaul]

I downloaded the Android Studio and will play around with it and the configuration later today. Thanks a lot, I'm already excited!

Glad to hear that dont be discouraged that Android SDK downloading will take long  

 

Should you have any questions, do not hesitate post in this thread.