Re:Ask HN: Should I start with Android for mobile development?
by jamesjguthrie on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @06:13AM
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You can build on iOS devices without worrying about the $99/year fee, if you jailbreak them. I would say that Android would probably be the best way for you to go though since you already have some Java experience and only have an old Macbook.
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Re:Ask HN: Should I start with Android for mobile development?
by orionblastar on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @07:40PM
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I hope that I can earn some money with Android apps so I can buy a newer Macbook to develop iOS apps.
That is one of my future goals to get to the point to develop iOS apps. But first I need to do Android because it does not have a developer tax and has better tools to write apps. I haven't figured out XCode and Objective-C yet, but I have a better understanding of Java because I learned C in 1987 and then Java and other languages later because my knowledge of C helped me learn the others.
When I was young, my father worked for AT&T and during a Pioneer meeting I once met Dennis Ritche who told me to learn programming. That is why in 1987 I took the C language class, he had a hand in developing it.