UPDATED: Want to build an app for iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows? These app tutorials will tell you how.
In a world where smartphone use is rising exponentially, the opportunities to make a name for yourself, not to mention a ton of money, by turning your app idea into reality are huge. But most designers don't know how to build an app - so where do you start?
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Alternatively, if you want to build an app for Android, iPhone or iPad, then check out this great selection of tutorials...
Android app tutorials
Building your first Android app
This tutorial teaches you how to build your first Android app. You'll learn how to create an Android project and run a debuggable version of the app. You'll also learn some fundamentals of Android app design, including how to build a simple user interface and handle user input.
Develop an Android app: video tutorials
This handy 'playlist' of Android development tutorials will take you through everything from downloading the SDK to putting your app on the market.
Create your first Android mobile app
A very short beginner introduction tutorial, this shows you how to create a mobile app for Android. The tutorial is based on API Level 17 and Android 4.2. Starting from scratch, you should have a mp/h to km/h converter at the end.
Build your first Android app
This tutorial gets you started with Android development without requiring you to wade through pages of technical documentation. At the end, you'll have written a simple Android app and you will be able to deploy the application onto an emulator or a real Android device.
How to build an Android app
There are two techniques that you can use to produce Android applications with a PC. The first uses the Android Software Development Kit (SDK). This lets you write raw code and helps you get it working in the Android environment. The second uses App Inventor, a Google Labs tool that's still in beta. This tutorial demonstrates how to go about doing both.
How to develop an Android app
In this four-part tutorial, you'll learn the basics of developing an app for Android. A perfect starting point for any beginner, the series will explain the programming terminology used as well as any strange acronyms.
HelloWorld application using Android Studio
Google recently announced a new IDE for Android called Android Studio. This tutorial explains how to install Android Studio on your Windows 7 machine and create a new HelloWorld application.
How to install Android SDK
Learn how to to install the Android software development kit and set up your development environment for the first time.
Getting To Know The Android Platform
This article explains what you need to do to build a scalable app that looks and feels right at home on Android, how to test it and your options for distributing it. After reading this article, you should have a good understanding of what kinds of decisions and challenges you will face when creating an Android app.
Advanced Android:
Designing For A Maturing Android
Around 480 million people currently use Android devices, and one million new devices are activated daily. Learn your market with this introduction to a maturing Andriod app audience.
Android Google Maps
In this tutorial, senior software engineer Ilias Tsagklis explains how to incorporate Google Maps into an Android app.
Design an Android app user interface
Android apps can be just as beautiful as their iOS counterparts. Richard Leggett, co-director of Bitmode Ltd, digs deep into the styling and theming and explains how to use just XML and image files to add a fresh look and feel to your app.
Automate your app testing
Don't trust humans to do all of your testing - not even experts. John Senner, Koa Metter, and Emory Myers of MokaSocial reveal how to delegate the dirty work.
Build a photo sharing app for Android
In this step by step tutorial you'll build SnapStack, a photo sharing application, from start to finish. Building SnapStack on StackMob you'll build a feature-filled app that includes User Authentication, S3 integration and more.
iOS app tutorials
How To Make iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience
This series of app tutorials teaches people how to build iPhone and iPad applications who have no programming experience. The focus is on explaining things in simple, plain English and get people started making their own apps, slowly introducing concepts as you need them.
Get started as an iOS developer
Got an idea for a killer app but don't know where to begin? Daniel Bramhall of Visioa explains everything you need to know to start programming for Apple devices.
Create a simple iPhone app
If you're new to iOS development then this easy to follow tutorial may be just what you need. Ray Wenderlich explains how to create an entire functional app from scratch for beginners.
How to create a simple iPhone app
An excerpt of a lynda.com course, this simple tutorial allows you to get started with creating an iPhone app. It won't show you how to do absolutely everything but it will most certainly help you to get started and learn the basics. You'll be on your way to iPhone app stardom in no time after learning these crucial ground rules.
Beginner's guide to iOS development
In this app tutorial, Jake Rocheleau, a user experience designer for both web and mobile platforms, provides a thorough and practical explanation of all the different stages of creating an app for the iPhone, from sketching your UI to developing your code.
iPhone application development: Hello World
This simple step-by-step guide will show you how you can create a quick and easy 'Hello World' programme.
Create your first iPhone app
Anyone can make an iPhone app, it's just a matter of knowing the process required to make it happen. Here, web and mobile UI designer Jen Gordon explains exactly what you need to do to create your first iPhone app.
Design and code an iPhone app website in HTML5
In this tutorial, you'll build a cool iPhone app using an HTML5 structure, and add visual styling with some CSS3 effects.
Simple iPhone app development tutorial
Aimed at those who are new to Xcode and Objective-C, this app tutorial explains how to make an app that changes the background picture of the app by dragging a selector on the thumb of the image.
A guide to iOS app development for web designers
This tutorial will help you to get to know the iOS development tools a little better. Be warned though, this isn't one for absolute beginners - you must have some knowledge of Objective-C and computer science to get to grips with it.
How to make an HTML5 iPhone app
Alex Kessinger explains how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application.
Design an iOS inferface:
Design UI elements for iOS
Román Jusdado reveals how to design UI elements for an iOS app using Layer Styles in Photoshop.
Design an iPhone app user interface
Designing for iOS devices is totally different from designing for the web. Sarah Parmenter explains how to create the perfect user interface for your app.
How to create iPad Apps in InDesign CS6
In this Adobe episode, you'll learn how to create iPad Apps using Adobe InDesign CS6. 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.
Design an iPad app user interface
Apposing's Dave Brown reveals how to prototype a user interface for an iPad app in Photoshop.
Design a photorealistic iOS app icon
Roman Jusdado reveals how to use Photoshop's layer styles to create an Instagram-esque iOS icon from scratch.
Advanced iOS:
Get started writing iOS apps with RubyMotion
Building on Apple's platform has traditionally required experience in a niche programming language, Objective-C. However, with the release of RubyMotion, anyone can make a completely native iOS app using the power of Ruby.
How to design an open-source iPhone game
Zack Grossbart made a new iPhone game based on a famous math problem called The Seven Bridges of Königsberg. He's selling it in the App Store, but I also want to share it with everyone, so he made it open source. This tutorial walks you through how he made it.
Get started with geofencing
Explore the location-based services provided by the iOS Core Location framework in Kevin McMahon's guide to building and testing a geofencing-enabled application.
Create an iPad game
Appcelerator Titanium is a fantastically versatile tool for creating mobile apps, as Anton Mills demonstrates with this game for the iPad.
Create an iPhone game
Hello Monday walks you through how to turn a rejected concept into a GPS-based arcade game.
Cross-platform apps
Build an app in 45 minutes with Meteor
This isn't a traditional tutorial. Instead, it's a play-by-play walkthrough of how the app was coded within one hour, including the usual dumb mistakes and wrong turns.
Get started with PhoneGap
In this excerpt from the PhoneGap Beginner's Guide, Nitobi/Adobe's Andrew Lunny goes over the biggest roadblock developers find with the mobile development framework: getting started and building simple apps for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry.
Create a theme in jQuery Mobile
We present an exclusive excerpt from jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials, on the basics of theming and building and using a custom theme for your app.
Create cross-platform games
Make simple games without code and learn to program as you go along. Gavin Smart introduces GameMaker: Studio.
Style the UI of a Sencha app
In this exclusive excerpt from their book on the Sencha Touch mobile JavaScript framework, John Clark and Bryan Johnson explain how to customise your app and use the Sencha theme engine with SASS and Compass.
Now read:
- The best iPhone apps for designers
- The best iPad apps for designers
- Beautiful Android app designs - click here
- The best Android apps for creatives
And that's it! Have you seen an app tutorial you'd like to recommend? Let us know about it in the comments!
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I wrote an article a while ago that explains the basics of actually building a native iOS app (rather than making pictures of one, like some of these examples):
http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/10/ios-sdk-for-designers/
http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/10/ios-sdk-for-designers/
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An educational webinar on the dynamics of building enterprise mobile apps; will cover the "how-to" of making cross platform native apps; for people experienced in mobile programming as well as for those with no mobile programming skills.
Link to join:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1213645681940317184
One of the most useful articles I've read lately. Bravo to the author. I'll try to make an android app and share what happened.
Checkout some more great tutorials for android and blackberry development
http://javatechig.com/tutorials/android/
http://javatechig.com/tutorials/blackberry/
http://javatechig.com/tutorials/android/
http://javatechig.com/tutorials/blackberry/
Well.. Android and Iphone apps are making money like no other business right now. you can create apps easily using greenapps machine > http://goo.gl/VTMbo .
Here is something that helped me a lot while building my first app http://bit.ly/10nVQDm.
Android platform rising very fast even mobile makers like samsung also using android as their mobile platform so that I think Android app developers have much better future than Ios.
We recently pushed several new updates to AppNotch, do-it-yourself AppBuilder ... when you get a chance, please checkout http://AppNotch.com we support HTML5, Android and iOS
Hi, let me comment http://www.androidcreator.com . It's an app wizard that allows to everyone to create a native Android app.
Great collection of articles.
I wrote an article earlier this year about developing the concept as a basis for making an app. I have a few others to be written about prototyping, writing code and design...
http://www.fotosyn.com/app-dev-creating-a-concept-and-developing-ideas/
I wrote an article earlier this year about developing the concept as a basis for making an app. I have a few others to be written about prototyping, writing code and design...
http://www.fotosyn.com/app-dev-creating-a-concept-and-developing-ideas/
Fantastic Article,I was just googling and the creating Indesign feature app came up,delighted,
I am currently putting together a photo tutorial app and this is excellent.I am using this
Free app at the moment to create a tutorial on photography,its called Instructo..
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/instructo/id646769332?mt=8
It maybe useful for people here too,in the creation and instructing of app building,in fact create tutorials about anything...Thanks folks
I am currently putting together a photo tutorial app and this is excellent.I am using this
Free app at the moment to create a tutorial on photography,its called Instructo..
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/instructo/id646769332?mt=8
It maybe useful for people here too,in the creation and instructing of app building,in fact create tutorials about anything...Thanks folks
That's a great article. If someone wants to build apps without programming skills I have made some reviews of therse companies. You can't create all types of app with those but if you have the info available it will work great!http://createownapps.com/
What is the best career for mobile develop: IOS, ANDROID, or HTML5?
Thanks
Thanks
I love this post a lot. I'm using Khan Academy now to learn and enhance the skills =)
Hey, Chris here!
Thank you for featuring my tutorial series! If you guys have any questions from reading it, please let me know and I'd be happy to help you guys out in your learning :)
Thank you for featuring my tutorial series! If you guys have any questions from reading it, please let me know and I'd be happy to help you guys out in your learning :)
Great content.
I've just put out a video course based on my journey in the app world. Happy to give anyone who wants a look a free copy.
use code: magoffer12
http://awesomeapplab.com/how-to-make-money-from-mobile-apps-the-fast-track
I've just put out a video course based on my journey in the app world. Happy to give anyone who wants a look a free copy.
use code: magoffer12
http://awesomeapplab.com/how-to-make-money-from-mobile-apps-the-fast-track
you cover excellent point about build an apps. And I easily understand how to going step by step using this application.
Great idea for a post.Thank you!
Thanks for this article! I may suggest to try myapp.net, a good app builder for iPhone and Android. You can easily create your mobile application in few minutes with our CMS.
Here is an online tutorial to make your app :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLv9Rb6j1Mo
www.myapp.net
Here is an online tutorial to make your app :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLv9Rb6j1Mo
www.myapp.net
Great post, i think there are some really cool additions to this article!
For example:
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4901-best-app-makers-creators.html
1. MainStreet Apps - http://www.mainstreet-apps.com/
2. AppMakr - http://www.appmakr.com
3. AppMachine - http://www.appmachine.com
4. Conduit - http://www.conduit.com
For example:
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4901-best-app-makers-creators.html
1. MainStreet Apps - http://www.mainstreet-apps.com/
2. AppMakr - http://www.appmakr.com
3. AppMachine - http://www.appmachine.com
4. Conduit - http://www.conduit.com
I found perfect site for creating apps...Yesterday I ended up on some site called apps-machine.com . I have to share it with you guys. I started creating my own app and after 15 minutes clicking on their control panel(no programming,just clicks) I made app in what user could make effects on their photos,paint photos,play music,play videos,have notepad,chat and stream music. They got literally 1000's of features on their control panel :D I think this could be a gold mine :P :P And I read something that they have free app development and so on. Aaand you can change everything all the backgrounds,colors,tabs...and you instantly see it on that same page through their simulator..don't know how they managed to do that but it is super handy...I am super excited at the moment..time to get some apps on apple and play store :D :D
Great post, one question thought, you don't know any good sites that give tutorials on C# Android Development?
Thank you for this great article,
I wanted to note that Android Studio is now Google's recommended IDE for developing Android applications. Many of the guides on the market currently focus on Eclipse or older IDE's.
I have written a comprehensive guide (with screenshots) for very beginners focusing on Android Studio. You can find it here: http://rexstjohn.com/how-to-make-android-app-android-studio/
Hope this helps everyone get started with Android!
I wanted to note that Android Studio is now Google's recommended IDE for developing Android applications. Many of the guides on the market currently focus on Eclipse or older IDE's.
I have written a comprehensive guide (with screenshots) for very beginners focusing on Android Studio. You can find it here: http://rexstjohn.com/how-to-make-android-app-android-studio/
Hope this helps everyone get started with Android!
For those with no development experience, who would like an app to promote their small to medium enterprise, or themselves personally: www.zapplify.com . Very simple interface, with some essential retail chain features, and the ability to create unlimited linked pages with user-defined content.
Android apps can be just as beautiful as their iOS counterparts. Richard Leggett, co-director of Bitmode Ltd, digs deep into the styling and theming and explains how to use just XML and image files to add a fresh look and feel to your app.
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