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Posted by Jesse Lawson
Jesse Lawson
11,159 Points

product question

I want to build an app for marketing people in the restoration business.

My customer is: marketing pro making contact with property managers and insurance sales companies who wants to offer value and continued engagement with their contact list

My product: a productized service. a customized app for each company that they can offer to their list for download. The app should have call functionality for the users to call the restoration business and be easily customizable for each business i sell to.

What technoloys should I use? How do I build for iOS and Android at the same time. (I'm learning javascript) How does it connect to the backend?

2 Answers

James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

Jesse,

If you're targeting multiple mobile platforms, then I'd recommend a mobile web app. You can build this with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and deploy it as a download or use something like PhoneGap to convert it to a platform-specific app that can get into app stores. Hope that helps.

Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points
Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

I am not familiar with mobile applications so I won't be able to assists you with that question but if you were looking to create something like this as a web app. I would think your best bet would be using PHP as you would need a server-side language to talk back and forth with a database.

That is only a guess, I am not a back-end developer so you might want to wait for someone with experience to guide you in the right direction.