1. Turn Your iPhone or
Android App Idea Into
Reality!Kevin Scritchfield
Instructional Designer/Activities Coordinator
Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
mrscritch@gmail.com @kscritch
Continuing Education Instructor
Fresno Pacific University:
Cloud Computing for Educators
Twitter as a Professional
Development Tool
Creator of Alge-
Bingo - an Algebra
Bingo game for the
iPad & iPhone.
2. Step 1: Have a Great
Idea!
Needs to hit a WIDE audience
Should be game based
Should be educationally sound
Highly Interactive
Provides Instant Feedback
Sense of Improvement
Allow for ‘Alternate
Realities’
Competitive
Shows Progression
Allows for Customization
Rewards w/unlockable
content
Games for Learning: Why Games Are Effective Educational Tools by Adam
Coccari
3. Step 2: Assess Your
Talents
Do you know how to code?
Objective C within Cocoa, Apple SDK,
or an emulator
like GameSalad or
Corona SDK
If not, find a developer!
4. Step 3: Finding a
DeveloperAppMuse.com
Contracts and NDA’s
Create a ‘look’ for your art work
Find an artist (http://dribbble.com/)
Create a storyboard or flowchart for
your game
Create as much of your app that you
can yourself
Working with a Developer
5. Step 4: Test Your App
TestFlight App
Use your family members, students,
whoever you can find
Decide if there are things to add to
your app and whether or not you
can afford them.
Decide when you are ‘done’ - don’t
forget that there is such a thing as
version 1.1 and 2.0 and . . .
6. Step 5: Become a
Developer
Pay your $99 to become an Apple
Developer or your $25 to be part of
the Android Marketplace
Submit your app!
Apple keeps 30% (29¢)
7. Step 6: Market, Market,
MarketCreate a web site, get reviews
Provide Promo Codes to bloggers,
app
reviewers, educational web sites,
etc.
Create as much local news as you
can:
local TV news shows, newspapers,
etc.
8. Step 7: Be Patient
Be realistic in that you probably won’t
get rich overnight.
Realize that it is
rare to create
an app that
everyone
downloads
immediately!
There are over 1,000,000 apps in the
App
Store
9. Turn Your iPhone or
Android App Idea Into
Reality!Kevin Scritchfield
Instructional Designer/Activities Coordinator
Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
mrscritch@gmail.com @kscritch
Continuing Education Instructor
Fresno Pacific University:
Cloud Computing for Educators
Twitter as a Professional
Development Tool
Creator of Alge-
Bingo - an Algebra
Bingo game for the
iPad & iPhone.