Well, you will always have the expense of a computer to develop on and usually for the tools, but I believe there is a free dev kit SDK for Android that is multi-platform. As far as the cost to post to the App Store or Android Market, $100 for an acct is a pretty low barrier to entry and it is a barrier to spammer scum. Albeit a low barrier, but a barrier non-the-less and I believe that a person has to prove who they are somehow. I find that the cost, the proving who you are and the rating system keeps most of the troll jackasses out of the game.
If we just had a SEAL team to hunt down virus and malware programmers… Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
Brian Kelsay
From: On Behalf Of Jack
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:20 AM
To: Richard Allen; kclug@kclug.org
Subject: Re: KCLUG Digest, Vol 87, Issue 4
Yes, that was my original feeling, when doing my own searching.
Well, I guess our final project will be an Android game App. Seems to be a bit more open and Free as in freedom and beer, although I'm sure there's a cost there to deploy also.
Can't say, I'm not surprised that an Apple solution would be excruciating from the outside.
releasing an app could always be done the Hackintosh way, but there's still all that pain just getting there.
With Android and my "course", he'll learn a little: Linux, HTML5, CSS, javascript, Java, and some Android development. Along with math and physics and such.
A bit better rounded. Still, there's that huge closed, pay to play, market. Who knows, Android may be the shot in the arm FOSS needs to build a really huge base.
Thanks everyone, your comments, as always are enlightening and useful.
Jack
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