Apps Difficulty in this app idea?

[John Smith Snow]

Hello all,

I'm a pilot who is looking for an application that can be used to log flight hours.
I currently have a Logbook on excel. It works "fine" but is tedious and slightly annoying to use on the phone. The apps already in existence for this type of thing are too complex for what I'm looking for so I was wondering how difficult it would be for someone with little experience in coding to develop on my own?

Concept idea:

1. I'd like to have a homepage where I could select from a drop down list of numbers my various modes of flight (i.e. Day Flight > 1.0hrs Night Flight > .6hrs etc)
2. I'd like to have page/tab used to view all cumulative hours that were inputted into the app
3. I'd like to have a page/tab used to view a list of Flights/Hrs that were inputted ordered by date

That's the down and dirty of it. Like I said, I have no real coding experience apart from editing html and basic stuff like that. But I appreciate a good learning opportunity and something to do in my down time I'd just like your guys' professional opinions on whether it's realistic for a nobody like me to come up with something like this and any ideas on where to start?

Thanks for your time folks.
-John

 

[Deleted User]

I think that's a reasonable first project.
You'll also need to use a database with the app.
Start with the basics, there are plenty of tutorials and books. Read the sticky posts at the top of this forum for some pointers on where to start.
If you don't know the Java programming language, you'll need to become familiar with that before embarking on an Android app project.

 

[John Smith Snow]

I think that's a reasonable first project.
You'll also need to use a database with the app.
Start with the basics, there are plenty of tutorials and books. Read the sticky posts at the top of this forum for some pointers on where to start.
If you don't know the Java programming language, you'll need to become familiar with that before embarking on an Android app project.

Well I appreciate the confidence.
Like I said, I have not even the slightest idea where to start with this... right now I'm going through https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/creating-project.html and seeing where this takes me.

 

[Deleted User]

You could start sketching out how you want it to look. Sounds like a tabbed view would be the way to go.
Also Android Studio has a very powerful UI editor, so even if you don't have coding skills, it's fairly easy, and fun to construct your UI by dragging components from the palette and arranging them in a layout.
Try it out, and if you have any questions - fire away.

 

[yotam2010]

Hello all,

I'm a pilot who is looking for an application that can be used to log flight hours.
I currently have a Logbook on excel. It works "fine" but is tedious and slightly annoying to use on the phone. The apps already in existence for this type of thing are too complex for what I'm looking for so I was wondering how difficult it would be for someone with little experience in coding to develop on my own?

Concept idea:

1. I'd like to have a homepage where I could select from a drop down list of numbers my various modes of flight (i.e. Day Flight > 1.0hrs Night Flight > .6hrs etc)
2. I'd like to have page/tab used to view all cumulative hours that were inputted into the app
3. I'd like to have a page/tab used to view a list of Flights/Hrs that were inputted ordered by date

That's the down and dirty of it. Like I said, I have no real coding experience apart from editing html and basic stuff like that. But I appreciate a good learning opportunity and something to do in my down time I'd just like your guys' professional opinions on whether it's realistic for a nobody like me to come up with something like this and any ideas on where to start?

Thanks for your time folks.
-John

Hello Jhon.
First of all as Game of thrones fan I just want to say I love your name.
Secondly I am a begginer developer my self but I do have little bit experience and personally my best way of studying (in general) is by teaching / guiding.
I would love to help you with your program as I belive it would benifit both of us.
If you really want to learn the subject then I wont make the coding for you rather then explain you some of the concepts and give you refference to websites that will be able to help you.

Anyway before starting with any programming I would advice you to draw a sketh on a paper / using powerpoint.
Make sure the sketch contain All the activites (windows), fragments (block of views that will apear in more then 1 window) and views (buttons, images, texts, ETC) with some explanation to what they do.