Apple + Android if I'm correct?

Here's a good beginners guide for apple/ios:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/RoadMapiOS/

And here's a goo beginners guide for Android:
https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html

If you have any questions after reading the guides, please repost them in this topic for further help.

This post was edited by suomi_d2 on Jun 25 2015 01:28am

i assume app means a mobile app for android/ios?

first, determine whether or not your intention is to make money off it.
next, determine whether you'd rather invest money (thousands of dollars) or time (hundreds or thousands of hours)

if you choose to invest time, keep in mind this is going to be a long-term project for you guys. it won't be something you finish in a week if you have no coding experience. depending on what your idea is, it could take months or years. are you prepared for it? there's no shame in saying no.

everyone and their grandmother has a great app idea, but few are willing to invest the time, money, and energy to make the app. if your goal is purely to make money, my advice is to hire a developer to do it for you. not only do you end up with a better product, but it's easier to throw away money than to throw away so much of your life.

I actually enjoy learning new coding languages, etc. Might be because I work in ICT tho. I'd say just start doing it yourself with some guides (there are many more good ones over the internet) and if you want to stop doing it, just get someone else to either finish what you're doing or do the full process from beginning.
One day I decided I wanted animation on my sig, no-one wanted to help so, I spent like 12 hours learning basics of Photoshop and now I can do some very basic stuff with it with no issues, which is going to be useful for me later in life.

if you wanna make it cross-platform, do it in jquery mobile and use phonegap to compile to android and ios. there's tons of jquery and phonegap tutorials out there.

you lose a lot of native performance when doing that. I'd not recommend that. Instead I think it's better to stick to one platform and migrate if there is any interest in the app.

This post was edited by Utunity on Jun 26 2015 04:26pm

I agree with this.

IMO that advice is only applicable to people who prioritize performance very highly, which are people/companies who 1) have enough financial capital and 2) expect to get a lot of users. potentially games as well, but i'm not familiar with unity and the likes. neither of which describes OP. i'd suggest picking whatever platform is easiest for him to learn.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Jun 26 2015 10:22pm