Udemy like mobile app? Gideros or ...?

mehmet2006

Hello everyone,
I am new to mobile development. I am looking for a technology to invest my time to become a mobile developer.

At first, i need to create cross platform mobile apps. And my first project is an elearning app like udemy.
Should I go with Gideros? But nearly all examples are games here.
I am also thinking Corona. It also looks like easy, not sure about its performance.
I also tried telerik. Its hybrid apps performances are sucks. Native app development is not easy with Telerik.
I can learn unity (which will also help me when i want to make games). There are some native ui libraries available. but they say "mobile apps build with unity eats battery"
I also tried xamarin but it is tooo complicated.

So i am a little confused. Any help is appreciated...

Thanks

antix

Hi mehmet2006, welcome aboard. I looked at udemy.com and I must say its ambitious to recreate that kind of thing for a first project.

I found corona roughly the same to learn/pickup as Gideros. Its performance (roughly 2 years ago now) in my opinion was not as good as Gideros (Gideros is FAST!). The thing I really didn't like about corona is that you have to have an internet connection to compile your code (it gets sent over to corona, compiled there, then returned to your pc). If you are loking at other frameworks I would recommend staying away from Marmalade, it's terribly slow. Love2d is not bad but getting it working with anything other than windows is almost unbearable.

It looksto like you are going to need to be using lots of GUI stuff in your app. Unfortunately Gideros doesn't seem to come with any GUI system out of the box, so you have several options..

1. Buy Widget Candy, the only commercially available GUI system that works out of the box with Gideros as far as I know. It isn't too expensive and is actually pretty cool.

2. Download one from the net and convert it. There are a few GUI systems floating about the net, mostly for Love2d (another LUA framework).

3. Write your own, which is what I did. I have just made this.. http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/6290/graphic-user-interface#Item_1 which is a visual GUI editor. You would still need to write your own GUI system around it's output however. I am semi confident however that my editor will work nicely with Widget Candy.

mehmet2006

Thank you for your answer @antix. I decided not to use gideros for non-game apps. NOt only for UI, but I guess it will just take too much effort to create a business app. I will try to find a hybrid app solution (html+js based) which has a good performance. But for a game, i want to try gideros. There has to be a reason if so many people lovi this product right

antix

@mehmet2006 Gideros is really fast for games, hope you come back to make some sometime