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Title: Writing apps for mobile phones
Post by: tigers_gonads on 31 August 2012, 11:23:28
As above

My 16 year old lad has just published his first paid application on Nokia Ovi and made himself a nice tidy 120 euro's in 2 days  :y

He has mastered app writing for symbian pretty quickly but is now looking into publishing the app on andriod and other operating systems.

Does he have to start from scratch with the code or is there any free software out there that will do the job for him ?

Any advice welcome  :)
Title: Re: Writing apps for mobile phones
Post by: TheBoy on 31 August 2012, 11:24:27
Not aware of any cross platform converters...
Title: Re: Writing apps for mobile phones
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 31 August 2012, 12:22:21
cross platform converters is not healthy/effective even on pcs..
Title: Re: Writing apps for mobile phones
Post by: tunnie on 31 August 2012, 14:39:55
Have to start from scratch. Tell him to get into Android / iOS / WM8 now. Symbian is dead!
Title: Re: Writing apps for mobile phones
Post by: tigers_gonads on 31 August 2012, 15:13:06
Quote from: tunnie on 31 August 2012, 14:39:55
Have to start from scratch. Tell him to get into Android / iOS / WM8 now. Symbian is dead!


I know but have you ever tried to tell a 16 year old anything  ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: Writing apps for mobile phones
Post by: Plomien on 31 August 2012, 15:16:28
If he is looking at Nokia the Windows phone 7 or 8 is best bet for app development :y
Title: Re: Writing apps for mobile phones
Post by: Kevin Wood on 31 August 2012, 15:45:42
Quote from: tigers_gonads on 31 August 2012, 15:13:06
Quote from: tunnie on 31 August 2012, 14:39:55
Have to start from scratch. Tell him to get into Android / iOS / WM8 now. Symbian is dead!


I know but have you ever tried to tell a 16 year old anything  ::) ;D ;D

I suspect this will fall into the same category but he needs to separate his own code as much as possible from the platform API so he can support several platforms by only changing a thin layer of code.