App creating help

There's plenty of ways you can build an IOS app outside of Xcode, but as far as I know most methods will still need Xcode to compile the IPA and provision for app store submission. If you don't have a Mac, you can use something like MacInCloud for the final stages before submitting your app. I think Cordova(formerly PhoneGap) may be able compile the app on their servers for you.

What kind of app are you trying to build? If it's something relatively simple there's a bunch of services out there to build cross platform apps. You can try Goat Apps

Using Xamarin now. It's easy if you already know C# and it makes it possible to create a single app that can be deployed across iOS, Android and Windows without a lot of extra work. You will see need XCode and a mac to deploy.

Build it as a web app with meteor. JavaScript wins the day.

If you need help getting going, let me know.

genejr at bayou d0t net

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None outside of scripts. My background is networking

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In that case why not get started with app inventor 2 @ MIT?

It's beyond easy and you can always convert the code to java later.

Will I be able to get it to Xcode for itunes?

Whoops don't go JavaScript then. Take cad's route.

It's a bit ambitious if you don't have a rudimentary understanding of relational databases but having said that Google has a free cloud-based online database you can use to at least build a prototype.

I'm drawing a blank on the name but it's very Access-like and you can have something communicating with your app inventor app in a couple hours.

The next hurdle is determining how you plan to scrape data from the remote website.

There are tools that can do this and write the results into your Google db but if they change their site around everything will break.

google fusion tables is what i was thinking of.

very easy to use.

takes very little effort to build an appinventor2 app that can read/write/update/delete data from the fusion database

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Scripts? That's not a language

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well, technically appinventor is a scripting language (visual) and you can program apps using it.

and javascript can get EXTREMELY complicated and i doubt anyone would dare say HTML5/javascript/css isn't a language.

wtf? It was a joke man. I was actually going to help