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Having an iPhone app made
Posted on 3/14/12 at 1:07 am
Posted on 3/14/12 at 1:07 am
Has anyone had any experience in having an iPhone app developed? I'm a pretty hands on type person, but do y'all think the learning curve for coding would be to steep? I don't have any experience what so ever writing code so keep that in mind. I am sure I can do it with enough time allocated to learn but at what cost is it not worth the effort. I understand different apps require different skill sets. This app would be similar to a police scanner in the way it works. It would basically be broadcasting a feed from the internet. I know this is extremely broad but I am just getting my feet wet right now.
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Posted on 3/14/12 at 7:04 am to TheDirty1
Why not start with Android? It is a lot cheaper.
Posted on 3/14/12 at 8:35 am to TheDirty1
iPhone coding sucks arse. Actually, I hear it is better now that Apple quit rejecting any apps written in a reasonable language instead of object c. You can thank android for that one.
Your app doesn't sound that difficult to write, it's basically a gui around a video/audio stream. I'd give it a shot myself before hiring someone to do it. The biggest key is using the right language, and I can't really offer much advice with that... other than shun object c.
Your app doesn't sound that difficult to write, it's basically a gui around a video/audio stream. I'd give it a shot myself before hiring someone to do it. The biggest key is using the right language, and I can't really offer much advice with that... other than shun object c.
Posted on 3/14/12 at 10:17 am to TheDirty1
you can download the iOS developer kit from apple and play around with some of the tutorials. If you have no experience programming it won't be easy.
Posted on 3/14/12 at 1:22 pm to ForeLSU
Thanks for the feed back. I am going to try to develop it myself and see where it leads me. I've been doing a little more snooping since last night and I am reading that Apple takes 33% of the sales from the app. If I was to offer the app for free but sale individual subscriptions would they still take their percentage?
For the comment about why not go android... If the app is successful I would eventually have one for each operating system. But I think it would make a larger splash faster though the iPhone due to their market share. I may be wrong here, if so please correct me.
Thanks again!
For the comment about why not go android... If the app is successful I would eventually have one for each operating system. But I think it would make a larger splash faster though the iPhone due to their market share. I may be wrong here, if so please correct me.
Thanks again!
Posted on 3/14/12 at 1:32 pm to TheDirty1
Android will be in Java vs Objective C.
Posted on 3/14/12 at 11:07 pm to Catman88
I would be careful. I worked for a venture capital start up ap developer if you will as marketing director. The cost of making the app and the cut apple takes away are significant. We outsourced the actual development of the app to an Indian firm but to get everything together was expensive. I didn't have control over pricing and development as I started when the app was being developed. I don't want to throw out an exact number but at $1.49 per app download our break even was around 15k. So bottom line, be sure you are aware of your cost and competition. It's a cut throat industry
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