The use of mobile devices to access the Internet continues to rise at a staggering pace. The opportunities to make a name for yourself, not to mention earn heaps of money by turning your app idea into reality, is huge! But most designers and developers don’t even know where to begin with their app, so where do you start?
If you want to build a mobile app for iPhone, iPad, Android or Facebook, then you’ve come to the right place because we’ve rounded up a few introductory tutorials that will get you up and running and building you mobile app in no time.
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Getting to Know the Android Platform
This guide explains what you need to do to build a scalable app that looks and feels right at home on the Android platform. It shows how you can test it, as well as your options for distributing it. After reading the article, you should have a good understanding of what kinds of decisions and challenges you’ll face when creating an Android app.
Getting Started with PhoneGap
In this excerpt from the PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide, Nitobe and Adobe’s Andrew Lunny will help you overcome the biggest roadblock developers often find with mobile development framework: getting started and building simple applications for iOS, Blackberry, and Android.
Beginners Guide to iOS Development
Jake Rocheleau, a user experience designer for both desktop and mobile platforms, creates this app tutorial to provide a thorough and practical explanation of all the different stages of creating an app for iPhone, from sketching your UI to developing your code.
Building Your First Android App
This handy tutorial will help you get started with Android development without the need to wade through pages of technical documentation. At the end of the tutorial, you’ll have written a simple Android application and you’ll be able to launch it onto an emulator or a real Android device.
How to Build a Photo-Sharing App for Android
This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to build SnapStack, a photo sharing app, from start to finish. You’ll learn how to build SnapStack on StackMob and create a feature-rich app that includes user authentication, S3 integration, and more.
Hook into Native Events with PhoneGap
Mitt Grifford will teach you how to develop cross-platform apps with web standards, explaining how to tap into a device’s native functionality like geo-location and GPS, accelerometer, video, camera, and audio capture.
Make iPhone Apps with No Programming Experience
This series of app tutorials will teach you how to build applications for iPhone and iPad, even without prior programming experience. The focus of the tutorials is on explaining things in simple, plain English to get people started in making their own apps; slowly introducing concepts as you need them.
Creating iPad Apps in InDesign CS6
This particular Adobe episode teaches you how to create iPad apps using Adobe InDesign CS6. You can build your Folio in InDesign CS6, add interactivity, use alternate layouts, build your app, and load it on your iPad or submit it to the App Store.
How to Build an Android App
When producing Android apps with a PC, there are two important techniques to keep in mind. The first one uses the Android Software Development Kit (SDK), which allows you to write raw code and helps you get it working in the Android environment. The other one uses App Inventor, a Google Labs tools that’s still in its beta phase. This tutorial will show you how to go about doing both.
Building a Login Form with DHTMLX Touch
This introduction to open source JavaScript framework DHTMLX Touch is created by web developer Alexandra Klenova to explain how you can implement a login form for a mobile web app and send form values to the server with Ajax.
