Write an iPhone app from scratch?

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Vyacheslav Golovanov2013-09-06 21:43:51

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Vyacheslav Golovanov, 2013-09-06 21:43:51

You need to write an application for shopping in a particular online store.
There is no experience in developing for the iPhone, there is no idea how this is done at all.
What is the easiest way to figure out what to read, what to write on (development environment, language)?

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nochkin, 2013-09-07
@SLY_G

If the application is simple enough, then you can write it in html5 / css / js and wrap it in an application using PhoneGap.
On html5, the entry threshold is much lower.
Among the shortcomings - on html5, mobile applications are usually slower. But for a “shopping app”, the speed may not be felt that way, and the development time will be greatly reduced.

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Denis Maslennikov, 2013-09-06
@Nof1000

There was a pretty good (for beginners) video tutorial series from AppleInsider: Teach Me Xcode

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gleb_kudr, 2013-09-06
@gleb_kudr

An important point. You won't be able to develop without a Mac. Your best bet is to buy used. It is important that there is a lot of RAM, xcode is very greedy. I can't say anything about hackintosh.
A device for testing will also be needed later, a simulator is enough at the initial stage, but it will not work for tuning.
Development languages - native Objective-C, C# - Xamarin, PhoneGap (js & html5). Personally, I started right away with Xamarin and I'm not going to leave it.

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evnuh, 2013-09-06
@evnuh

Go to developer.apple.com (https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/develop.html), click on getting started and start.

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Kubikov, 2014-03-15
@Kubikov

Try one of the mobile app builders. Most have ready-made templates for creating, but for example, this New Digital Times allows you to make an application from scratch with any graphics, for any device