Howdy from Australia!!
I think most of you would be like me and come up with a dozen new ideas a day.
My background is mostly in web dev - although i'm not a guru I can knock together most things I want by putting together and editing open source code
It pissed me off a bit that I couldn't do the same for apps so I started looking into the possibility of using web dev skills in the app world (this lead me to what is called "hybrid apps" amongst a range of other paths you could go down).
There's a few services out there that will do this for a monthly subscription or whatever but you can do it pretty easily by using Android studio.
If you want to look into it further it basically runs on a WebView which is a frame within an app, but you can overlay functionality and features into it to bring it closer to what people call a 'hybrid' app. You actually do need to add extra features otherwise Google Play will call it a glorified website and knock your submission back.
Anyway, if you like a little tech project here's my step by step guide: Converting Your Website Into An App
It's prob like 30-60 minutes if all goes well.
I reckon it's pretty sweet - particularly that you can send push notifications - I have it set up so that when someone clicks on a push notification it will change the web url to whatever you decide.
The original idea behind the project was that I would convert websites into apps for online store owners and they could use this push notification system much like how one might use Mailchimp to send notifications e.g. "sale now on click this link" but then I kind of wanted to do it for IOS and Android, but you can forget about webview style apps on IOS from what I understand they have very strict rules on getting apps approve and these kind of things would get knocked back on most occasions.
Anyway, have a geeze and follow along it's a pretty satisfying tech project and maybe if you have a new spin on the business idea you could make something of it??
Cheers, Chris!!
P.S. If you do decide to give it a go and get stuck reach out to me and i'll help you trouble shoot :)
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