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I would say that your best bet would be to learn React Native. It's an excellent option for mobile apps and you can reuse what you learn for a lot of other things as well. It's super popular so you should find no shortage of resources if you get stuck.
Another option is Flutter. I personally don't like it too much unless I also intend to target desktop (and even then I'd probably use something else) but it's fairly popular as well so you should be able to find plenty of learning resources.
Wow, I had no idea that React Native basically ran most major programs in existence. Looks like it might be time to sit down and take some online courses/YouTube tutorials for this thing if I really want to get serious with this project.
Thanks!
You're welcome! Have fun!
As @eldritch_lich said, react native is a good choice.
Start to learn JS first. Find tutorial in the format you want.
You will have to write useless code for the sake of learning.
Then when you will start to know a bit of JS, you can start to learn html, css, then react.
Then you will be able to write your app.
It may sounds like a lot, but:
Sweet thanks for laying out a simple progression path.
How good have you found ChatGPT to be? My understanding is that sometimes it's great but other times it's way off base. Then you have to figure out what went wrong and you know how the saying goes "You don't know what you don't know."
A tip I forgot to give: Use the debugger very early while learning JS, it's very helpful to understand what the code is doing.
How good have you found ChatGPT to be?
It's great for snippets, or explaining simple code.
It does fail often when hitting deep in some API, or when you want to do thing in a specific way because you know what you are doing.
You have to talk a lot to it, if you want it to produce code for you.
But in your case, i recommend to never copy paste JS from ChatGPT, because it's your first programming language (html and css are not programming language), and making your brain used to code will be the most important thing
I said to not copy, but you can ask questions to it, and it will be often correct, dont hesitate to send big chunks of your own code to chatgpt to get explanations.
Awesome, thanks for the clarification on that. Some very good tips to put into action.
ChatGPT should be plenty good for any foundational questions you have. And asking "how could I improve this code" with a code snippet can give you insight into better ways to do things. If you ask it for broad responses like "write me an app for relaxation sounds", I can guarantee that it won't work, but using it alongside a tutorial when you have questions or get an error can save so much time.
