Company Specific App

Stingray

As far as I can tell all (maybe most) apps are created for mass market use, but are apps developed for specific purposes? I have a paper form that is completed but I've had the idea that this could be translated to an app, to use that way instead of paper/pen. Features would be:

Check Boxes yes/no fields
Drop down selection boxes
Free text area to type
Form is then e-mailed to set addresses
Form is stored also on the users I-phone for historic reference

Would all of the above be hugely expensive to create? Just had the wilde notion of a paperless office..

deep1

Stingray wrote: »

As far as I can tell all (maybe most) apps are created for mass market use, but are apps developed for specific purposes? I have a paper form that is completed but I've had the idea that this could be translated to an app, to use that way instead of paper/pen. Features would be:

Check Boxes yes/no fields
Drop down selection boxes
Free text area to type
Form is then e-mailed to set addresses
Form is stored also on the users I-phone for historic reference

Would all of the above be hugely expensive to create? Just had the wilde notion of a paperless office..

I persume you want an app for Iphone? and do you want someone to create it for you or do you want to do it yourself?
you will need to have Mac computer and devolper licence ( $99) to make and publish app, if you have good knowledge of objective c and want to create your self then that's all the expense it is.

Stingray

deep1 wrote: »

I persume you want an app for Iphone? and do you want someone to create it for you or do you want to do it yourself?
you will need to have Mac computer and devolper licence ( $99) to make and publish app, if you have good knowledge of objective c and want to create your self then that's all the expense it is.

No not looking to develop it myself, but getting one created for use, provided its not way off cost wise. Its a specific thing, so it would be no use to anyone else

deep1

Stingray wrote: »

No not looking to develop it myself, but getting one created for use, provided its not way off cost wise. Its a specific thing, so it would be no use to anyone else

But then thing is that, i don't know how it works but to use the app just for youself you might need to get approval from apple, which most likely be refused because it's for personnel use.
well ask Vinny ( lackofcolour), he is a Mod here and also have some good app, if he can do anything, i would love to do coding for you but i am very tied up at the moment.

Dades

What you describe is quite achievable via a webpage, that can be "app'ed up" to look like an actual app.

Take this page that creates a page to access your Flickr account easily via an iPhone:
http://www.chandlerkent.com/iphlickr/#_searches

Viewed via Safari on an iPhone (or in a shrunken browser window) it has all the look of an app, whilst simply consisting of a series of webpages.

So a webform that does the things you want yours to do (email, etc) can be styled to look like an app. (I've done it myself and once you have Safari to test it in it's pretty straightforward.) All you need to distribute the "app" is the URL!

Just a thought.

Stingray

Thanks for the replies. What I wasn't sure on was if you could get one up for your own use, without the i-store etc don't want the world to be reading the content, it appears from your replies that you can't.

Interesting idea on the Web page 'app'ilised', only thing with that is I wouldn't want the world either to see the template, anyone could see it on the web

Red Alert

You can distribute an app to a closed number of devices. You should be able to use Ad-Hoc distribution if it's for a low-ish number of devices. That doesn't need the app to be on the app store. I think it's available in the normal developer license.

If you went the web route you could use HTTP authentication to hide the page.