How to Build Your Own Mobile Application

Have you noticed that every website these days seems to have a mobile app? This isn't a fluke, mobile technology is the way of the future. If you have been thinking about making your own app, no matter what the reason or genre, this is a great time to get it done.

But how do you build a mobile app? It might surprise you to know that various tools have been created to make it simple to build an app for even the most technologically challenged user. Some are free, some charge a flat fee and others have you pay per update. But all of them are pretty cool, and very handy if you just need something to guide you through the process. Think of them as the HTML builders of the current decade.

1. AppMakr

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Flying Fun: My App Success Story

Have you ever considered making an app? Would you like to sell your app globally and make money from it 24/7? Did you know it's actually not that hard? I am now achieving success with my first app and I didn't have to write a single line of code. 

Introducing: Flying Fun - a copter style endless flight game, with a twist! We expanded on the original helicopter flying game by adding powerups and coin collection to the game. Don't you hate it when you get real far in a game and then crash? With the use of our powerups, you can fly even further! And trust me, this game get addictive!

My brother and good friend began work on Flying Fun in Oct/Nov 2012. At the time we were all still third year students at university, studying full time and working part-time jobs. We're not programmers, so we outsourced development to Click Labs in Mumbai, India; the creators of successful apps such as Temple Run, Temple Run 2 and Agent Dash.

Since then, we have graduated university, we're working full time jobs and still managing the marketing of our first app and now the development of our second app. Are you starting to see a trend here? Developing apps doesn't require a full time commitement or massive budget. We just had the courage to give it a go.

I can't describe how cool it is to wake up in the morning, check your reports and see that your app has been downloaded thousands of times over night in countries all over the world.

We're now looking at getting Flying Fun ready for Android and we're launching our second app very soon.

I'd like to keep you updated on our progress and if you have any questions, please comment below. I've kept this post quite general so please feel free to ask about how we made the app etc.

I don't mean to promote to much, but please take a look at Flying Fun and let us know what you think. We'd love to hear your valuable feedback.

- Paul

iPhone SDK Tutorial: UIAlertView

I decided to upload some Xcode Tutorials on YouTube so a lot of people could get started with learning how to develop their own iPhone applications. In the first tutorial I will be teaching you how to create a UIAlertView, which is essentially a pop up in your application, wether it be when the app launches or anything else really. The UIAlertView displays a title and a message, as well as some buttons either below it so different actions can be given to each button accordingly.

To check out how to create the UIAlertView watch the video below: