Making an Adroid and Apple app with Geolocation feedback

[der_crow]

Hey all

So here is the deal, I'm looking to do an app ( something ive never done) ive done coding of a bunch of platforms so I'm sure I can get it.
-Resources that can help teach me -what programs to use

Basically all I need the app to do is have a contact page and a button you can hit that will ping our business with your location (accurately) and a small message written from the person

then I need to port it over to the apple store, I know itll take time to go through all that approval and that's fine.
I have a MacBook I can work off (could also do a virtual box) as I hear the Apple apps can only done off the Apple OS.

Any and all help is appreciated.

[Contron]

If all you're trying to do is just a simple contact app with some code that will phone home with the user's location, you might save yourself a lot of time (and effort) and just create a web app instead. You can use [url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation]the geolocation APIs[/url] to fetch the user's location, and then send it off to your server.

[gofuckyourself]

[QUOTE=Contron;48451667]If all you're trying to do is just a simple contact app with some code that will phone home with the user's location, you might save yourself a lot of time (and effort) and just create a web app instead. You can use [url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation]the geolocation APIs[/url] to fetch the user's location, and then send it off to your server.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I would suggest just making a mobile-first web application. If you need an app to tell people to download on android, and just simply show a webview on android. I'm not familiar enough with iOS development to say what the equivalent of a webview for iOS is, but I'm sure there's something.

Not sure what a webview is? Please read [url=http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html]this link.[/url]

It might be slower than pure android form and sending requests to your server, but that's quite a bit of coding for what I think you can work with.

[der_crow]

Thanks. love that you gave me the support link, ill update with my current status tonight.