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Asked: 2026-06-09T08:28:00+00:00

Hello everyone and thanks for viewing this question :) I am an indie to-be-developer

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Hello everyone and thanks for viewing this question 🙂

I am an indie to-be-developer and want to make apps for android, windows 8 desktop and metro.

After having read through a lot of forums and blogs, I believe that perhaps to make the best looking(native-feel) apps I have to learn

  1. Java for Android
  2. HTML,CSS and JS for Metro
  3. Something else for Windows desktop

What I need your help in is, whether there is any one particular language which I should start with which will make my journey better ?

By app I mean something to do with sharing and transferring of files.

P.S. Read that Python might be perfect !

Do you agree ? Please suggest something.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As Tanis alluded to, you’ll need to determine where your goals are in terms of “rich functionality versus maximum reach” – and from your “best looking (native-feel)” comment, I’d say you’re leaning toward “rich”

    Pure HTML5/CSS/JavaScript will give you the greatest reach because of browser ubiquity, BUT you can still use HTML5/CSS/JS for native development for modern Windows 8 applications and via PhoneGap for Android and other mobile devices. Having one code base AND supporting native features across those platforms would be difficult, if not impossible, but with the right design and architecture you should be able to get a great amount of reuse of your HTML/CSS/JS assets.

    Another option, since you’ve mentioned Windows Desktop as well, is to use WPF and XAML with C#. You can build native Windows desktop applications with it, and those same technologies (XAML/C#) are one of the three primary development options (along with HTML5/JS and C++/XAML) for modern Windows 8 (nee Metro) applications. For the Android piece of it, Xamarin’s Mono for Android lets you reuse many of your C#/.NET assets for deploying native applications to Android (and they have MonoTouch as well to add iOS to your arsenal!)

    As for Python, productive and powerful language, and great for backend services – like the plumbing for sharing and transferring files – but it wouldn’t be my tool of choice for building mobile apps.

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