DesignerApps is a website, graphic design and 'App' front-end designer looking to develop several ongoing iPhone, iPad and Android Apps in conjunction with the successful candidate (or candidates) collaboration on the programming and back-end work. The skills required centre mainly around coding for iPhone and iPad.

» iOS / Xcode / CocoaTouch
» Flash / Flex
» Titanium

DesignerApps strength is in App concepts, user interface design, visual styling/branding and marketing, so we will provide all visual graphics and process flowcharts, specifications etc.

We are seeking a long-term working relationship with a committed and accomplished programmer/developer or small trusted team who can program the Apps and then maintain and enhance them after launch to agreed schedules.

Initially, I would like to make contact with skilled developers, to see if a long-term working relationship between us would work well for us all.

Obviously, I don't want to give too much away in terms of detailed specifications until we get into dialogue, but the requirements between all the concepts I need to develop could be broken down into complexity levels, so I would be interested in where you feel your skills are in terms of delivering the following:-

Simpler:
» Create simple 'web page view' frameworks, so that I can populate with content (HTML?)
» * Create forms to capture data
» Use simple animations (transitions, sliding page views etc, modals)
» * Create 'modular' relational database structures / link data to front-end pages for display of data
» * Create custom interfaces (based on supplied graphics)
» Links to social media
» Send email's from In-App
» * Use iPhone (or other phones!) camera to capture photos
» * Pick colours in photos (manually and / or automatically)
» * Programming of gestures (pinch to zoom/move etc)
» In-App purchases

Complex:
» * Create and send (email) PDF (programatically / dynamically created)
» * Image manipulation / layering / animation control
» * Links to cloud services such as Dropbox etc.
» Web service 'back-end' integration
» * File management (import / export / various formats)
» File editing / saving / export
» Use BlueTooth features of phone
» Use WiFi / IP address based syncing to desktop PC's
» Use accelerometer functions of iOS devices
» Game Centre integration
» * Synchronous Multi-player real-time database game engine

I may be wrong about the complexity of some of those, and I may well need other related tasks, but that should give a good idea of the range of programming required.

Please, when you make your bids, reply with an indication of your strengths and skills for the requirements above. Ones with (*) asterisk are particularly specifically required, so pay extra attention to those.

Communications and availability would be very important to me, as I want this relationship to work as if you were a cohesive part of my team.

DesignerApps will have very high standards for the quality of programming and general robustness of the code and feel of the App. We are only looking to develop well polished Apps, so please only apply if you feel you have the skill to do a very professional job and be able continue to support.

Please let me know what ways of communicating would be best for you? (MSN, Email, Skype, Telephone etc)?

If you have any other questions, I would be delighted to answer them.

I can provide detailed specifications and screenshot mock-ups at the next stage, and once and NDA can be signed between us.

I am happy to discuss payment terms, options being hourly rate, fixed rate per project (or parts of) or profit-share on App sales. (or a combination of the above). For the initial project I would aim to giving a very specific requirement so that we can all work comfortably on a fixed cost, but happy to work on the developers terms once they see the specifications.

Thanks for reading - I am looking forward to meeting you!
Kindest Regards,
Mark Hockings MD - DesignerApps