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Originally Posted by Rectorna
Hi, thanks for the replies.
A friend a I run a Mobile Detailing Business. We have been talking about making an app for our costumers to use to book times and get info about our business.
Some key features we would like:
-Be able to link our Twitter into the app somehow with our most recent tweets, possibly as a pane.
-Be able to link our Facebook into the app and also show our recent posts, also possibly as a pane.
-We are in between our calendars right now I want to stick with iCloud partner wants to switch to google calendar, but either way be able to link our calendar into the app and let costumers schedule appointments and select services with prices, and optimally be able to let costumers check out though the app using either their cards or apple account?
-Another possible feature we have discussed is being able to have a pane with photo albums of our previous customers cars as references as we take a lot of pictures of our work.
-The final pane would be just a basic about us with information about our business and prices.
Neither of us have any idea if this can be done. We are small and young and don't have the capital to hire a developer to do this.
I have tried making a few basic apps before but have never been very successful, but I am very willing to learn.
Is this something that it would even be possible for me to learn or is it way way out of my league.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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It is definitely do-able, anything you put your mind to is. Here is the thing with Apple, and I am speaking from experience. Up front you must pay the $99/year developer fee to have access to the Developer portal and to release apps. Second, they have a very rigorous review process and your code must be pristine, unique, and contain no errors. If it does not, they will reject the app and will not accept until you fix it. The tasks you described above should not be too difficult, however, I would consider them above beginner but below expert. I would fist familiarize yourself with the concepts of Object Oriented programming before making the leap right into Objective-C, since it is a heavily object oriented language. Once you have a basic understanding of object orientation and its concepts, you can dip your foot into development in Xcode. There are lots of excellent tutorials online.