App development, yes but on which platform?

[a_bertrand]

Well looking here:
http://www.androidauthority.com/why-dev ... id-285774/
I would definitively say android. Personally I also would tend to say android would be my personal choice. However due to the fact it's clearly an android site, it could be biased

Anyhow, I would say, the best option is a web site with HTML 5, to have the best cross platform options, or use some tools to transform your site into an app. Mind you, it's my personal opinion.

[hallsofvallhalla]

agreed and

http://www.appmobi.com/


enough said.


Build your app in HTML5 then deploy it to whatever. I used it and it works well.

[Jackolantern]

Yeah, HTML5 is definitely the best option for non-game apps, and some more simple game apps. That way you don't have to marry yourself to a single platform and start from scratch to port it to anything.

Plus, some of the newer platforms are treating HTML5 as a first-class citizen, such as Mozilla OS. While these OS will likely have minuscule adoption rates for the foreseeable, even 0.001% of the market is going to be hundreds of thousands of users who all want apps, and who have an empty app store. It really could be a potential opportunity, and HTML5 will get you there without forcing you to put all your eggs into it.

[Xaos]

To learn HTML5!!!! But seriously, this summer I will likely be turning this fish harvesting game into an app on both android and iOS, so I may be using HTML5. Would it be easier to transfer PHP to HTML5 than C and Java?

[Jackolantern]

To learn HTML5!!!! But seriously, this summer I will likely be turning this fish harvesting game into an app on both android and iOS, so I may be using HTML5. Would it be easier to transfer PHP to HTML5 than C and Java?

PHP is server-side and HTML5 is client side, so you couldn't really turn a PHP application into an HTML5 one. At least not the whole game. The client-side stuff could be turned HTML5.

[Xaos]

To learn HTML5!!!! But seriously, this summer I will likely be turning this fish harvesting game into an app on both android and iOS, so I may be using HTML5. Would it be easier to transfer PHP to HTML5 than C and Java?

PHP is server-side and HTML5 is client side, so you couldn't really turn a PHP application into an HTML5 one. At least not the whole game. The client-side stuff could be turned HTML5.

I meant just literally changing the code from PHP.

[a_bertrand]

Nope sorry... PHP just works to produce HTML... but that's about it. While an HTML5 application works differently, more like a normal windows application development is, yet with JS, CSS and HTML.

[hallsofvallhalla]

If you mean rewriting your PHP then I would have to ask how much of your actual game is really PHP? What is the PHP actually doing? Just getting data? Well remember when you go app based you no longer have the web server, you have to either setup a server to talk to your c;ient or make everything local in the app. For both you can use Javascript.