Creating new games on Android and/or iPhone
- by James Clifton
I have a succesfull facebook poker game that is running very nicely, now some people have asked if I can port this to other platforms - mainly mobile devices (and I have been asked to make a tablet version, do I really need a seperate version?)
I am currently a PHP programmer (and game designer) and I simply dont' have the time to learn Android and other languages - so I have decided to pay third parties to program them (if viable).
The information I need to know is what programming language is needed for the following four devices - Android mobile phone, iPhone, iPad and tablets?
Can they all run off a central sql database? If they can't then i'm not interested :(
Do any of these run FLASH?
Have I covered all my main bases here?
For example if a person programs for a ANDROID mobile phone is that to much differant to an ANDROID tablet? They will have slightly differant graphics (because the tablet has a greater screen area might as well use it) but do they need to be started from scratch?
Same goes for iPhone/iPad, do they really need to be programmed differantly if the only differance is the graphics?