This is going to be a quick and ez post about the experiences I went through looking into and researching how to create an Android or iPhone app. More than likely the first, since my site wouldn’t make it past the Apple censor nazi’s, but with Android’s growth exploding in the market, who’s to say if going iPhone first is the best way to reach total market penetration.

The nice thing I found out, and here is a tip for you Android or iPhone app developers, is that there are currently many dev’s out there who are ahead of the game. Instead of just creating the next best app, they are creating the next best place for normal people to create their Android or iPhone app! Better (biz) plan if there ever was one.

Why take job after job, and make “x amount” of money only to compete against other developers who could do it faster? Why not put out a tool and open it up for anyone with a RSS feed to create an app? Much better business, and the competition is small right now in this field. If you are a developer who has been pondering the best way to leverage the app playing field, this may be the one.

In my research, I did ping a few developers that I know and all of them said similar advice. Use the current RSS feed you have and there shouldn’t be a need to have someone write an API at this point. RSS to Android or RSS to iPhone was what I used to search. Here is what I came up with.

1. iSites

This place was already covered on Mashable and other blogs. It’s a nice place and it will create a proper app for you. It does however cost $$$ to do so. Right out of the box. If you have the traffic, and you know you can cover the costs, go this route. I’m sure they have tons of customers. For those that don’t have the traffic or just want a mobile app that they can experiment with, read on.

UPDATE3: See the comment thread between iSites support and this blogger. 1 month FREE, so this might be a viable option even for those not sure on spending the $$$.

2. Majoobi

This is where I created a really quick app for TurboWhiteTrash.

You can read about it here, and load the app here. The nice thing is for a site with not so much traffic like TWT, you can try it for free up to ~25k pageviews I believe. Is it a real app like  you see? Not really, but it does give you a mobile presence and you can gauge whether you need to go to the above company and create the proper app for release, or find a dev that can help you out.

UPDATE: From the comment left below: Actually you can install Majoobi apps on the device and it will look native, what you do is click on the “+” button in Safari (found at the bottom of the screen), click on “Add to home screen” and that will install it on the desktop. What’s cool about this is that you won’t see the Safari browser url or any other panels, the whole thing behaves as a native app :)

UPDATE 2: The fine support crew at Majoobi has sent over a couple of links on how to drop the app to an Android device. For the not so savvy, these 2 links are a must read. Now you can have a native appearing app on your Android device.

Technically Speaking, while maybe not the best solutions, unless you are a crack shot developer who can write an API or even use RSS to create a quick app for Android or iPhone – chances are you will be investigating one or both of the above solutions soon for your mobile app presence.

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Wow! The month of April has sped right on by. I guess that is what happens when you have one full time gig and a couple of part time gigs going on. So here are some quick items that just ran by me today that I wanted to share

- PercentMobile – Grab your invites if there are any left! I talked to David the CEO late this afternoon and he opened up some more invites, but those could be gone! You really need to know what your % Mobile is. And don’t forget to follow the twitter @mobileanalytics

To get a sense of some of the data you would see, check out this report for FourSquare, the mobile social network that MG is in love with. Not surprisingly, 76.5 percent of all of its traffic is mobile. Although it comes as an iPhone app, you can also access it via a mobile browser. The most popular device accessing it that way is not the iPhone (since most people use the app), but rather the Blackberry (9.9%), followed by HTC’s G1 Android phone (9.6%), followed by two more Blackberry models (8.9% and 7.4%), and then the iPhone (7.3%), and then another Blackberry (7.1%). Guess which platform FourSquare is going to develop an app for next? Yup, the Blackberry.

- EGolfGroup and Innovative Business Golf Solutions join forces to launch the Business Golf Country Club – Nice to see Scot getting this social network of his going quite well from what I read and hear. Also now they have the golf heaven connection, which I understand is anywhere from Palm Springs, CA – Sedona, AZ.

“The bond that links golf and business is indisputable,” says Bisbee. “On any given day thousands of executives take to the fairways because they have heard golf is good for business, only to discover the process for success is as difficult to master as basic golf technique.”

Duke, author of How to play business golf, founded his company after researching and playing business golf in different business environments only to realize the vast majority of golfers who attempt to use golf as a business tool fail to grasp the precise parallels.

“Like a private country club, the BGCC ensures an exclusive, safe and absolutely spam-free Internet environment for golf-related business and networking,” says Duke. “We afford our members the tools to post messages, communicate freely and exchange information with fellow BGCC members.”

The Business Golf Country Club makes every effort to screen out applicants who have no interest in golf or golfers. Spamming is not tolerated, nor posting any information for the soul purpose of selling products or services.

Read the entire BGCC press release.

Technically Speaking, Full Disclosure time: I am working part time for PercentMobile in the capacity of Community Manager. Scot Duke and I have been friends for a few years now and we have done podcasts and other ventures in the past. Follow me on twitter to keep up with everything!