Okay, so I’ve got a Postgres database hosted on a VPS at the moment, and I wanted to use this as a backend for a mobile app (Android and iPhone).
The current database stores public information about shops (name, address, postcode, city, phone). I wanted to use this data to build native apps for android and iphone with the following functionality:
- Get Local Stores using GeoLocation.
- In the case of GeoLocation not being available, fall back to grouping by city, allowing the user to select a city.
- Show the information for each store. (A show page).
I don’t need any authorization, or access to any of the other device APIs, just geolocation.
Also, my speciality lies in web app development – I have zero experience with objective-c. Is there anything you folks would recommend?
Note: It needs to be deployable to the appstore.
You should really go with mobile web app frameworks if you’re a web app developer.These frameworks are cross platform which is pretty useful and makes it a breeze for a web developer to have an app.
Something like these.
Sencha Touch – http://www.sencha.com/products/touch
jquery mobile – http://jquerymobile.com/
Titanium – http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/