Noob here, but wanting to try and make my own app.

Question

Hi all, I have a small amount of programing experience with Siemens and Allen Bradley but would like to make my own app for a certain website I frequent. I would like the website to be a little more user friendly for me instead of having to open browser etc. Is it possible to have a simple forum translated into a widget so you can see the forum posts and post from there? The website in question is http://vnboards.ign.com

Any ideas or suggestions no matter how bad are appreciated. If it isnt worth attempting or my skills may not be up to par, feel free to say so :P Dont pull any punches :) Thanks!

Justin

Answer 1

It isn't worth attempting, and your skills are not up to par.

What? you said pull no punches, but let me explain a bit.

To write an "app" (I'm going to assume iPhone or android) that would be capable of easily viewing and posting to a forum that you have no access to the back-end or any api available is well, tough.

Screen scraping and url post re-writing are some options, but not a dive-in point for a skillset of "Siemens and Allen Bradley", more of a javascript or objective-c or .net experience would be a better fit.

I would stick with being grateful for the amazing lives we have to be carrying around something where you can just "open the browser" as an option.