I created and launched an Android app a couple months ago (with lots of help from this site, thanks!).
Well, I’ve a made a couple hundred dollars. So naturally I’m thinking that if I can sell this on Android,it should sell on the iPhone. I pieced together the Android app by just searching forums on the individual parts of the app.
I don’t have a Mac or iPhone. But I’m looking to purchase a Mini and borrow a friends iPhone 3. However, since creating the Android app was free, I’m wondering if creating it on iPhone would be fairly simple before I drop $800 on a mini and developer’s license.
Would this type of app be fairly easy to make?
- Splash screen – 3 seconds
- Main Menu with 5 buttons. Each button leads to a sub menu
- Sub Menu with anywhere from 3-9 image buttons. Each button goes a full view of the image.
- Full screen view – has play button, which when pressed, plays a 3-6 second video.
Example:
- Main Menu – Buttons that say: Cat, Dog, Fish, whatever. Users selects Dog
- Sub Menu (thumbnail images act as buttons)- Retriever, Lab, German Shepherd,… User selects Retriever
- Full image view of Retriever with a play button. User selects play button.
- Video is played of Retriever running around.
It was pretty simple on Android but without any experience with Objective C and such, I’m not sure how difficult it would be to build on iPhone.
Also, I’m not thinking that this would be a quick app for me to build. Because I started with no experience in Java and using Eclipse, my android app took me about 100 hours to create.
I’ve seen on here suggestions for checking out the Standford iPhone course in iTunes as well as a few other sites for reference.
One thing to mention is that I have Flash Professional 5.5. I read that I could use this to create an iPhone app as well (without having to purchase a mac). I’ve never used flash before. Would this program be easy to create in Flash as well. Ideally, I know it’s better to create in native code, but this would save me purchasing a mini. Thanks again.
All things are relative, of course, but that’s about as simple as apps get. The splash screen is simply a case of dropping an image in, the main menu is just a load of buttons, you can use a navigation controller to go from screen to screen, an image view for the full screen image, and a movie player to play the movie. There’s very little code to write, it’s just hooking up things that are built into the platform.