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I'm a 17-year old self-taught developer just starting to tap into the mobile world! :3
This summer, I've worked on a minimalist distance-based alarm clock app that wakes you up before you miss your stop!
Check it out here! http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/commuter-buddy/cb9b5107-41e0-4d2b-b0d6-110fe555fc3b
Feedback and comments are welcome, thanks :)
Great idea indeed, wish I could try.
To tap into the mobile world, it could be better if you'd target the 95% user base (iPhone or Android). Unfortunately Windows Phone sells less than 3% globally in Q2 and going forward, the prospects for Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Phone look darker. Even newer more exotic options such as Jolla, FirefoxOS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch don't seem to have prospects for much bigger market share.
But impressive idea, again.
>> I'm a 17-year old self-taught developer just starting to tap into the mobile world! :3 Great idea indeed, wish I could try. To tap into the mobile world, it could be better if you'd target the 95% user base (iPhone or Android). Unfortunately Windows Phone sells less than 3% globally in Q2 and going forward, the prospects for Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Phone look darker. Even newer more exotic options such as…
Would you mind sharing the tools and technologies used to develop your app? If not here then a blog post would be fantastic, describing the process from start to end, issues you had with the tools/processes, etc.
One small bit of feedback on the UI, make the background for the "Type or tap destination" text entry field darker, it looks kind of messy at the moment as the background information is too visible.
>> I'm a 17-year old self-taught developer just starting to tap into the mobile world! :3 Great idea indeed, wish I could try. To tap into the mobile world, it could be better if you'd target the 95% user base (iPhone or Android). Unfortunately Windows Phone sells less than 3% globally in Q2 and going forward, the prospects for Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Phone look darker. Even newer more exotic options such as…
As others have commented, in my opinion Windows Phone will have a negligible influence on the mobile market going forward. I think it would be a much better investment of your time to start developing on either iOS/Android (or both!) as early as possible.
Good luck!
>> I'm a 17-year old self-taught developer just starting to tap into the mobile world! :3 Great idea indeed, wish I could try. To tap into the mobile world, it could be better if you'd target the 95% user base (iPhone or Android). Unfortunately Windows Phone sells less than 3% globally in Q2 and going forward, the prospects for Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Phone look darker. Even newer more exotic options such as…
In some markets, WP has over 10% market share. It's absolutely true that globally the share is much less but it isn't a small number of deployed units in absolute terms.
It looks cool! Well done! :) As others have commented, in my opinion Windows Phone will have a negligible influence on the mobile market going forward. I think it would be a much better investment of your time to start developing on either iOS/Android (or both!) as early as possible. Good luck!
Unfortunately Microsoft have almost no experience at doing such a thing, they have always lived in their [big] Windows eco-system bubble and that may very well be the thing that stops Windows Phone, Windows Tablet's etc from ever becoming a real player in the market.
The next year is going to be critical to Microsoft's long term success as a platform provider outside of PCs.
Too many people get tied up on "what platform should I develop for?" when they could be spending that time getting an MVP up on _something_, validating it and getting the ball moving.