should i go for ios or android app development?

[TheSmartstudent]

The web is where it's at. It's also important to note we should should view the web as a platform: HTML, CSS, JavaScript. (*NOT* PHP, ASP etc.)

 

Apache Cordova looks promising. If I get chance, I'll ping some people who work on Firefox OS, and ask them if they've seen it. Firefox OS is aimed at the web being native for mobile, making development 1,000,000 easier

[mikeyd101]

Couple of other technologies worth adding /considering/ looking at are JSON, AJAX, JQuery. I've not been involved in development for a couple of years so its probably moved on leaps and bounds.

 

I also wouldn't exclude server side technologies from development, if you talk about web being a platform the content has to come from somewhere. I think it's better to correlated that data server side and technologies (SQL, PHP, ASP, JSP) are worth knowing to be able to create kickass web applications, but I agree web apps are were its at write once and deploy to multiple clients, but it's not always straight forward.

[TheSmartstudent]

Couple of other technologies worth adding /considering/ looking at are JSON, AJAX, JQuery. I've not been involved in development for a couple of years so its probably moved on leaps and bounds.

 

I also wouldn't exclude server side technologies from development, if you talk about web being a platform the content has to come from somewhere. I think it's better to correlated that data server side and technologies (SQL, PHP, ASP, JSP) are worth knowing to be able to create kickass web applications, but I agree web apps are were its at write once and deploy to multiple clients, but it's not always straight forward.

 

I'm not excluding server side languages from the actual app, only the actual web platform. Web Applications can be powered from such language, but should be possible to run without them, so they can function when internet connectivity isn't there.

[slugshead]

I picked android as java is my preferred language to learn.

 

Also, the dev licesnse to publish to google play is $15 one off.

IOS is £100 a year

 

the monetization is better with Ios mind.

[kinster]

You should go for the native approach. It will be interesting to learn too. From what I've read these other framework technologies allow you to use "Web languages" so you develop pages that are viewed through the native web viewer (like a browser).