When you were a kid playing video games in the living room, you always imagined what it would be like to create your own game. And not only to create the game but have it become popular as well. With the introduction of the IPad, the dream that you had as a kid can become a reality. Just like in the early days of computers when a single person could create a game and have it become popular, the same thing is happening to the IPad. All of the tools are there so that you can create your own applications and have them ready to be distributed to millions people around the world. We will go over all that you need to have your own app ready and waiting in the app store for someone to come buy it.
The first thing that you are going to need to do to create your own app is to make sure that you have a computer that is able to run Mac Os X. You need this so that you are able to download the SDK that you need to create the application of your choice. After that is downloaded and installed, you are going to have to get gritty and learn how to manipulate the computer by programming in Objective-c. Many people are scared off when they think about programming but it is really not that hard. Once you have the basics down then all that it takes is to learn the libraries that you will need to make your game come to life. Libraries are special pieces of code that will do some functionality that is used all of the time. For example, you may have a maths library that you can use so you do not have to rewrite simple maths functions yourself. As we said earlier, programming is not hard but there are a lot of rules to learn. Learning these rules will take more time than anything else that you have to do. The language that you will be creating the app with is called objective-C and you will be using the Cocoa framework.
Once you get the basic ideal of programming, there are several tools that you can use to get your ideals onto the computer. You are going to need a good text editor or IDE. Two of the most highly recommended are XCode and TextMate. Once you have these two then you are ready to start creating. You might also need an image editor as well. If you want to create your own graphics then a tool like Photoshop is what you are going to need to get the job done.
If this sounds like that it might be too much work for you, then you could always go another route. You can come up with the ideal and pay someone to create it for you. There are a lot of apps in the app store that are made this way. If you already have another full time job then you might not have the time to learn how to create your own app. If this is the case, pay someone, it will be a lot quicker and easier.
As you can see, creating your own app can be a lot of work. But it can be alot fun and rewarding as well.
