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Want to buy ready built Android & iOS app to use as template

Post by Appy777 » Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:02 am

I have been toiling away for a number of months now, learning as much as I can, in the limited time I have, about Livecode. I am completely new to coding and it is a huge learning curve for me. Unfortunately, due to my circumstances , I only have a few hours a week for quite some time now to devote to this. I have an app I desperately want to build, but am struggling to find the time to do so, and unfortunately I simply to not have the finances to pay someone to custom build it (I have made enquiries about prices and the quotes are completely unattainable for me). I am a single income mum of 3 very young kids, which is why there are such time and budget constraints.

I am now at the stage where I can understand code when I read it (mostly!), and can build bits and pieces too. But I have never seen a complete app with more complexity than the simple apps presented in the beginners tutorials online - so I am not sure what I don't know about building a complete, fully functioning mobile app as yet!

After much consideration, I have arrived at the conclusion that the best path forward would be to see if anyone is willing to sell me both the Android and iOS version of an app that they have built, which I can use as a template - to modify, add to, and most importantly, learn from. So I will work backwards - which for me is a very effective way to learn. Unfortunately, if I am to move forward building it from the ground up, it will take years to build at the pace I am currently moving, so unless I can find another way, I don't think I will be able to realise my little dream any time soon!

So I am putting this out here, in that hope that someone may have a functioning app for both iOS and Android that they would be willing to sell to me for a small fee, so that I am able to move forward with my little dream of an app :-)

What I am looking for:

- An app for Android and iOS (same app made for both devices)
- Ideally would have menus controlling video streaming, but this is not completely essential
- must have menus which open other cards in the stack or action functions such as launching video or opening files
- make use of features which may be useful in my design which is presented in the attachment

The app which I want to build is just a little "teach kids how to read" app which will contain videos being streamed from Vimeo. I have attached an image detailing how it will look / function.

Please if you have anything which may be suitable for me to use as a template, could you private message me with the details. I would be so appreciative.

Thanks,

Prue.
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Re: Want to buy ready built Android & iOS app to use as temp

Post by Mark » Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:17 am

Hi,

I'm willing to give it a try. Feel free to contact me at m [dot] schonewille [at] economy-x-talk [dot] com

Kind regards,

Mark
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Re: Want to buy ready built Android & iOS app to use as temp

Post by Appy777 » Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:51 pm

Thanks Mark. I have messaged you from my gmail account - you may want to check you junk folder as it may get sent there.

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Re: Want to buy ready built Android & iOS app to use as temp

Post by Mark » Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:04 pm

I'll reply tomorrow.

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Re: Want to buy ready built Android & iOS app to use as temp

Post by Appy777 » Sun Sep 28, 2014 3:40 am

I had initially decided to make my requirements very basic, as I have previously posted about video streaming etc, and had not had a huge response. I thought that perhaps I would have a greater chance of getting a basic app that I could work with, and forging on from there.

If anyone is interested in more details, the complete app should function as follows:

First screen:
Page with a button to “join us on Facebook” (takes user to Facebook page), once the suer has “liked on Facebook, they are taken back to the second screen of the app.
User can select “skip for now” to skip the Facebook step.

Second screen:
Read this in conjunction with the original attachment in this post.
Object A: is a scrolling field. The contents of this scrolling field are populated by the A/B buttons directly above “Object A”.
When the “Videos” A/B button is selected, a menu of video titles will appear inside “Object A”. When a Video title in this list is pressed, it will cause a video to play in “Object B”. Ideally this would be an accordion menu, so when any of the videos in “Step 1” are active, then all 3 video titles under Step 1 in the menu would be visible, and they would disappear when a video in step 2, 3 or 4 was active, and so on.
When the “Other Apps” A/B button is selected, links to my other apps will appear in the menu (when I eventually have some other apps!) I thought that it would be ideal if these apps could be controlled from a website so that I could add more when more become available, without having to update the app (not sure how to do this), but this is not a deal breaker.

Object B: is where the videos appear (they are launched by cli8cking on the video titles in the menu in “Object A”). The videos are to be hosted on my Vimeo Pro account and are to be streamed from there. I have made other posts about streaming from Vimeo within IOS and Android apps, but unfortunately haven’t had much luck. I really don’t know how to stream from Vimeo.
There should be the ability to play, pause, skip along further/back in the video, play full screen. Also need a next and previous button to move to the next video.

Bottom Menu:
This menu lists the titles of articles on web pages on my website (yet to be created) which can be launched from within the app. Once the user views the webpage, they need to be able to hit a back button to go back to the app.

And that's it!

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