[Tfug] want to try doing a mobile app

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On 08 Aug 2012, Liz Ravenwood wrote:
> Greetings,  I'd like to try a hand at building a mobile app, 
> and need to buy a new phone anyway.
> 
> Anyone have any recommendations?
> 
> A friend of mine keeps pushing a certain type of phone on me, 
> but I want to get one that I can actually learn to program...  
> without messing it up though...
> 

Hi Liz,

You're going to get a lot of polarized responses to that question 
on this list.

You can run your mobile apps inside a "mobile device emulator" 
directly on your computer. This means you don't need to have the 
device to get started.

So my recommendation is to download the software development kits 
for the phones you are considering, and play around with them, 
maybe make a super simple app, and see which one you like better.

Hope that helps!

-- 
Glen