I'm trying to learn to write a mobile app in my spare time as a side project. I have 0 experience with mobile development.

Right now I mainly do migration and automation of applications to AWS and I have experience in C, Java and Ruby (though I'm rusty in both).

Are there any languages that can be used to develop cross platform applications? (iOS and Android) I know friends of mine who develop with swift at work, but it seems to be iOS specific.

Maybe I should just focus on one platform (possibly iOS) then migrate to android later? If I do develop cross platform, thoughts on HTML 5 and using something like PhoneGap?

Any help or direction would be appreciated, thanks. Sorry for the huge wall of text


E/ If it helps, a general overview of the app is to allow users to select a range of options, then based on those options return a selection of items that fit their selection.

This post was edited by lopelurag on Sep 26 2015 07:19pm

It depends on what you wanna do. overall i've had pretty good experience with Appcelerator. i have noticed some performance issues, but i didn't try it in native code to compare. i dont like their business model for their IDE. it's caused some headaches. new releases tend to be buggy and i've seen some problems in their documentation. there's also not a super great way to share code between projects. i've been relying on svn externals for that.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 26 2015 11:25pm

To be honest I think I may just develop in iOS first. The app I want to make definitely won't be IO intensive, just needs to perform quick DB searches.

The only problem is I have no idea what language to use? Objective-C, Swift, Angular.JS, Javascript, HTML 5?

I agree

Ionic is cross platform

HTML5, CSS, Angular/JS

This post was edited by ArtofApocalypse on Sep 28 2015 06:04am