So You Want To Build Apps?

If you want to build apps for any number of mobile devices we thought we would provide those resources to you. The emerging mobile application space has exploded in recent years with developers even ametures making lots of money on the side with little marketing or other resources you would normally think of as having been done by a full company. From hobbiest to students and professionals ever one is building apps. Start by picking your poison (the platform you are interested in)

Android (Phone and Tablets)

Dominating the marketing but in a very fragmented way. Certainly the potential to really be the best platform if the carriers every can get out of the way. http://developer.android.com/index.html

iOS (iPhone/iPad)

The platform that started it all and arguable the best industrial design for mobile platforms... iOS. http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action

Cross platform Native(ish)

more or less a .NET environment like Java for mobile application development accross most platforms. http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

A cross platform based system like mono in a custom dev tool. http://www.appcelerator.com/

HTML/HTML5 Based App Frameworks

HTML based application framework for most mobile devices including Android, iOS, Phone7, Blackberry and more. http://phonegap.com/start

 HTML based application framework for wp7 only. http://htmlappwp7.codeplex.com/

Windows Phone (Phone7, Mango etc)

Everything you need to know todo Windows Phone development from XNA, VB or C# in Visual Studio for Native applications. http://create.msdn.com/en-US

Windows 8 (Slates)

Not coming out until next year developers can get started now doing development for the new winRT framework using HTML/JavaScript, XAML,C# or C++. Windows 8 is twice as fast as win7 in half the memory. Its all about Metro but lets see how it does when it enters the consumer market end of 2012. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/br229518

This covers 99% of if there is something you'd like to see here let us know @ david.kelley@wirestone.com

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