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Jack Ryder
7,286 PointsBuilding a twitter alternative
Hi,
I'm currently learning iOS and can make a few simple apps and I'm looking to test myself and make an app like twitter for example which has users and can interact with each etc. What language(s) would be required for this and where would I get started? How does the twitter app work and what language(s) is it coded in?
Thanks,
Jack
3 Answers
Dave Evans
13,160 PointsTwitter was built with Ruby on Rails. Facebook was built with PHP. You can use any sort of language that you prefer, as long as you have the ability to tap into a database of some sort to store and pull the data. I've developed a few different applications using PHP and MySQL, but that is because it is more familiar to me than Ruby. There are plenty of languages that have the ability to do the same thing, it is simply your preference.
Jack Ryder
7,286 PointsThanks Dave, that's a big help. So for twitter's iOS app how is this built? With Ruby on Rails?
Thanks
Peter Hearne
6,803 Pointsfrom an educated guess the ios app was not built with ruby on rails, i believe it would have to access the twitter server/database and the only ios code would be functionality of the website :)