Hi everyone, my name is Ross and I would like to introduce myself as a complete and utter newbie to the app building world! I have a keen creative mind, however, Ive never built an app before so Im on a very steep learning process! Look forward to getting to know you all Ross M

Welcome Ross Matthews! I never did either until I joined buzztouch. LA

Welcome Ross. You are in the right place.

Alright mucker! Know you part of the country well, Glasgow born and bred, don't hold that against me though. Welcome to BT! With a name like Ross you could almost be Scottish. Creative mind means you are more than half way there buddy. Don't ever hesitate to shout and one I the ninjas will jump in. Welcome!

Welcome Ross! Cheers! -- Smug

Thank you very much everyone! I'm just in the process of watching the buzztouch webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bz3JsOUFa4 to get a better understanding of how to use BT. Around minute 37, he downloads the source code for IOs (Mac) to demonstrate the simulator, ie how it looks live. Ive just done the same for my demo (I'm only using android) and, erm, I'm stuck already! Do I need to already have eclipse on my PC to see a simulator of the app Im creating? Ross M

Yup. Eclipse (the android thingy) will need to be installed. Although I think the simulator is actually a different 'application' I don't think it can be installed separately. Or maybe it can; but I don't know how. (I use eclipse for the Mac. You don't 'have' to have a PC to do Android, but you *have* to have a mac to do iOS) Cheers! -- Smug

You will have to have Eclipse on your Win (or mac) laptop. The Eclipse software, once installed will provide you with all of your simulators. Small phones, phablets and tablets. This is what is going to package your app, compile the code and load onto your test devices, whether hardware or simulated.

Thanks everyone, theres seems to be quite a few options to download, will the below be sufficient? Eclipse Standard 4.3, 198 MB Downloaded 477,773 Times Other Downloads The Eclipse Platform, and all the tools needed to develop and debug it: Java and Plug-in Development Tooling, Git and CVS... Just copied and pasted the above from eclipse.org

That looks about right. Once you download it, you'll still need to install a million SDK parts as well... Check out the GoNorthWest Tutorials; he might have one for your particular setup. http://www.youtube.com/gonorthwest Cheers! -- Smug

Welcome aboard, Ross. My bro lives up in York, England. You might want to go through the Buzztouch U videos on here, first, as they may answer most of your initial questions: https://www.buzztouch.com/account/btu.php Cheers

Welcome aboard, no looking back now!