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Is it worth lerning for making games an apps for the iPhone & android?

I may not know much about iphone/android development, but I do know that a main use of javascript is for web design. For Iphone you should learn objective-c/++ and for android you should learn java. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

iPhone is objective-C and Android is Java. Both are actually valid languages to learn, because they expose you to numerous different and useful OOP sub-paradigms. Also, it's a good way to get some easy money.

Do you need to pay to use Java for commercial purposes? I sort of thought you needed to.

Benjamin100 wrote:Do you need to pay to use Java for commercial purposes? I sort of thought you needed to.

Not as far I'm aware.

dandymcgee wrote:

Benjamin100 wrote:Do you need to pay to use Java for commercial purposes? I sort of thought you needed to.

Not as far I'm aware.

My school chose to let us learn VB and not Java. I asked them once, and my teacher said you had to pay for Java. But now as far as my research goes, I'm not even sure lol :/

BugInTheSYS wrote:

dandymcgee wrote:

Benjamin100 wrote:Do you need to pay to use Java for commercial purposes? I sort of thought you needed to.

Not as far I'm aware.

My school chose to let us learn VB and not Java. I asked them once, and my teacher said you had to pay for Java. But now as far as my research goes, I'm not even sure lol :/

That's ridiculous, you don't need to pay for Java. Regular Java is open-source, plain and simple. Java ME, EE, FX etc; is a whole different scenario since Sun Microsystems never opened those up, which is why Google made their own Java virtual machine for Android called Dalvik, and that's why we have the big debacle with Oracle (who bought Sun) suing Google over copyright/patent infringements.

With what I just said though, I can see why there's ambiguity about it.

Tom_leonardsson wrote:Is it worth lerning for making games an apps for the iPhone & android?

I would say most definitely yes, but I'm biased because that's an area I'm interested in. There's a lot of demand for iOS and Android developers. I see a lot of ads where I live looking for application/game developers for both platforms (not that this should be your main reason for going for it, but I mention it because it's a definite perk).

I can promise as well that developing for Android in Java using Eclipse will be a good learning experience that might change how you think about programming apps (if you can manage to get the thing set up). It's really cool how Android generates static generated Java objects from XML.