App making software

[N8MNAqkS]

Anyone know of some free c++ supporting software that can be used to make apps. Not like games but like Twitter or Facebook. Something like that. Something I can use to make graphical interfaces and menus and stuff. Yall know what app are.

[George P]

If you are developing apps for Windows, the Win32 API.

For other OSes or cross-platform GUI frameworks using C/C++: wxWidgets, FTLK or a dozen others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits

[z05DSL3A]

This assumes your are interested in Windows 10 and beyond.

It may be worth looking at Universal Windows Platform (UWP)^[1]. For this you can uses C++/WinRT^[2] (not to be confused with Win RT) and the Windows SDK. C++/WinRT is a standard modern C++17 language projection for Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs. You can use any C++17 compliant compiler with the Windows SDK but Microsoft make is far more convenient to use Visual Studio^[3]

If you want to submit apps etc. to Microsoft storefronts, you would need a developer account^[4]. You shouldn't need to rush out and do this. It is not too expensive for an individual.


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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Windows_Platform
[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-apis/
[3] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/
[4] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/store/register

[367kGNh0]

Get Xcode or VS, a server and a library, You... have done a bit of research right?