How hard is it to develop an app?

Diddums · 29 Dec 2019 at 12:42

For someone like me, whose experience in this field stops at QBasic and Turbo Pascal 7, with some web experience. I need an app that can pull data from a database, allow data to be put in to the database, upload images to the database and generate easily searchable records.

Is this achievable? Loads of internet results of "learn to make apps in 5 minutes" and all that but we all know how marketing works.

Diddums · 31 Dec 2019 at 10:43

jsmoke said:
I have the perfect toolkit for you. Basic for Android or B4A. It's about as simple as you can get, BASIC language similar to VB6, and drag and drop interface. Ever expanding library of plugins/user controls or easy to write your own. Works with iOS also it's actually called b4x now I think.

https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html

jsmoke said:
Use mysql lite as database, plenty of code on B4A forums, you need to subscribe if you want to post however.

Cheers jsmoke! I'm still trying to make sense of it all, seems that an app for Android is very different to an app on iOS and the biggest thing I'll need is accessibility for anyone.

Diddums · 2 Jan 2020 at 12:10

Thanks for the replies all. As you'll probably have gathered from around the forums I'm busy concocting an idea and getting ready to launch a business, so any and all advice is very much appreciated.

Diddums · 2 Jan 2020 at 13:32

Thanks guys, tons of valuable info here

Very much appreciated!

Diddums · 6 Jan 2020 at 16:11

roccles said:
@Diddums have a look a Glide Apps. It uses Google sheets as the backend to store the data. It is very simple to get going with and you can build some pretty cool stuff with it.

https://www.glideapps.com

Dunno why I didn't get a notification for this but thanks, I'll have a look this evening