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How does one create an app? (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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I have no background or knowledge on this. I would like to make an app for performance engine building that has various pages with various formulas, unit conversions, tool lists, etc. What program do I use to make an app? I've seen Surge, Bevy, and Godot but those seem to be for games.

Edit: ~~Thank you everyone for your helpful responses. Unfortunately I can only see the responses left on my post, not replys to top level responses. I think this is an instance problem and I'm trying to find out because I would love to see everyone's comments.~~ All is working now

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The answers about getting started with Kotlin and Compose are good, but I'd like to offer for your consideration that your app may actually be more appropriate to build as a website. Food for thought.

[–] harry315@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago

https://developer.android.com/codelabs/basic-android-kotlin-compose-first-app

and if you've never written a line of code in your life:

https://developer.android.com/get-started/overview

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Android Studio is the primary toolkit for developing native android apps. If you have no background in programming, there are some more visual tools like Budibase (open source) or Softr (closed source), but you are likely to run into difficulty getting them to apply logic the way you'd like.

If you're a tinkerer, then honestly I'd look into learning more about Android Studio and Kotlin, the language most used these days for app development on Android.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Android Studio is proprietary

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Imo that's fine. It's also still the best tool for learning since it's the most widely supported one, and contains the greatest amount of documentation for working with android development. It costs nothing to use, and doesn't lock you into any kind of ecosystem you can't later migrate from.