Do I need a bigger computer to develop a social networking app

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i have a for app development and i just started so since i have only a laptop i was wondering if that can cause a problem

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i have not tried anything by the time

Posted 25-Jan-18 6:10am

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Updated 25-Jan-18 6:23am

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David_Wimbley · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-25T06:23:00

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Unless you are building something that takes gobs of memory and hard drive space, your laptop is fine to develop your application on and then deploy what is built out to a server.

For example an API for your App probably shouldnt be running on your laptop in a production environment but having it on your laptop as a dev environment is fine.

Without specs of your laptop, of which we don't have access to, no one can tell you for sure but chances are if your laptop was built in the last 6-7 years you likely have enough power/resources on your machine to do most any development you want to do.

Unless you have something more specific or a specific concern, I'm not sure what kind of feedback you were looking for.

Posted 25-Jan-18 6:23am

David_Wimbley

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Member 13638713 25-Jan-18 12:25pm

thanks, david your answer was helpful enough

David_Wimbley 25-Jan-18 12:27pm

Sounds good, if you get into your work and have more specific questions, feel free to come back with clear explanation of your issue with any relevant code samples (if possible) and I'm sure someone here will do their best to help answer your question.

Valery Possoz 25-Jan-18 12:36pm

Well... I disagree a bit. If you plan to use Xamarin and you want to build an Android and an iOS app, your laptop won't be enough, and by far. First, you will also need a Mac, and pretty decent one too as you will need to be able to install a recent version of OSx and Xcode and all the libraries needed for Xamarin to compile the iOS version, anything over 4 or 5 years old won't cut it. Assuming you currently have a Windows laptop you will need one that has Hyper-V enabled so that rules out the Home edition of Windows, further if you want to use the Android emulator to test/debug then a second monitor is a must. Also make sure to use the Microsoft emulator it is 10 times faster than the google crappy one.
In conclusion, a 6 or 7 years old laptop might work but it will be a real pain to use and not good enough if you do an Android/iOS app. My advice, get a decent piece of kit it is well worth the investment.

David_Wimbley 25-Jan-18 13:16pm

Yep I agree, good feeback, I was more just thinking it was probably a web app and didn't notice the xamarin tag.

Member 13638713 25-Jan-18 12:41pm

actually @valery possoz i want to develop a live streaming app and i have an acer from 2015. so what do you suggest???

Valery Possoz 25-Jan-18 13:08pm

You'll need to host the server side API somewhere. Azure and AWS are the best, I prefer Azure. You can get a free Azure account to get started, google Azure Media Services
You'll need a Mac to compile the iOS version, any recent enough Mac will do. A second hand 2 or 3 years old mac mini is enough.
You'll need a secondary monitor, it is optional but it will make things much easier.
good luck.

Member 13638713 25-Jan-18 13:13pm

i really appreciate, thank you soo much @valery

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