App building help

uintahiker

uintahiker

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Anyone on here have experience on building apps? I've been thinking about building one, but it's far out of my expertise, so I don't know where to begin or what questions to ask. I'm looking at something fairly basic, such as a multiple choice test format, 100-200 questions. Maybe a "study mode" that shows answers afterward with an explanation and a "test mode" that gives a percentage correct after. How easy would it be or what would something like that cost?
 
Mobile apps are complicated. Apple is harder to work with so start with other platforms. Maybe even learn C++ on Visual Studios free version.

As for a basic quiz site that can be accessed on a mobile device I suggest Moodle. It is free and open source. Just install it on your server.
 
Update: I may have one on my old computer but it has been a while. I will try to find it. It is made for the iPhone. I never was able to load it to the App Store due to a small coding glitch. It was made from googling tutorials on the web. Keep in mind Apple required $100 iPhone app developer fee to submit apps. They must also approve it. To get to that point your code must be perfect.

I will look on my work computer Monday.
 
I work in social research so I'm familiar with most of the software packages for online testing/surveys. (I don't know anything about creating apps tho). For creating online questionairres I would suggest SurveyMonkey or Qualtrics. Both are easy to use and optimized for smartphones. To do what you described you'd create a questionnaire with all of your questions and randomize them. For the study mode, you'd create a branch for each questions so that if if they answered correct it tells them so and continues, but if incorrect, branches to an explanation before continuing. For the test mode, instead of the branching to explanations for each question you'd just set it up to give them their score at the end. You'd have a separate URL for each questionairre which you could easily embed into a Wordpress site or something.
 
Vegan.Hiker said:
I work in social research so I'm familiar with most of the software packages for online testing/surveys. (I don't know anything about creating apps tho). For creating online questionairres I would suggest SurveyMonkey or Qualtrics. Both are easy to use and optimized for smartphones. To do what you described you'd create a questionnaire with all of your questions and randomize them. For the study mode, you'd create a branch for each questions so that if if they answered correct it tells them so and continues, but if incorrect, branches to an explanation before continuing. For the test mode, instead of the branching to explanations for each question you'd just set it up to give them their score at the end. You'd have a separate URL for each questionairre which you could easily embed into a Wordpress site or something.
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Even something as easy as Google Forms may work for you depending on what you need.

I don't know but just judging from the fact that you are asking this on an outdoor website I suggest you start with Google or the options that @Vegan.Hiker suggested.
 
Your site is wordpress. There are a ton of plugins for what you want to do from basic stuff to so robust that universities and big business use them.
 
Nick said:
Your site is wordpress. There are a ton of plugins for what you want to do from basic stuff to so robust that universities and big business use them.
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I agree with @Nick. If it makes you feel better just consider your WP site a "web app."
 
I just put together an e-learning site on the LearnDash plugin if you want something really powerful. It's $129 I think.
 
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