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Hi Guys,

How to make an android application for an altcoin? Is there any open-source application to fork and build for an altcoin?

Thank you

I don't think android app or any mobile app will help you to create your own altcoin. But you can use mobile apps and integrate it with your altcoin.
As far as I know, you need some blockchain developer or smart contract developers to create your own coin.
There are lot of ways to create your own altcoin, just like using Ethereum network to create an ERC20 token, or NEO, or Tron.

What type of android app you are trying to create? Hope it's not a crypto wallet? Or money savings app? You will need to hire a professional for that to work out for you, go to services section of this forum below and create a topic about hiring a qualified personal to create app for you

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0

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What do you mean with 'Hope it's not a crypto wallet? you are funny bro. Let me tell you this, hope you don't get a heart attack, Yes it's for a crypto Wallet.

The reason why you are asked if it's a crypto wallet must be because of trust issue, just my own guess, you give someone the job to create a crypto wallet for you, how trusty are this people? They can leave a backdoor in your app and later start stealing coins

Hmm alright, I see, so my apology if I misunderstood the guy :)

I just need some sort of built project to fork and edit later on, I found Coinbase SDK and Bitcoinj but I'm still checking how to set my blockchain on it yet

It looks like you are not having a background as the developers, right? if you are having the background as the developers and it's not a difficult thing to build your app through using a various programming language.
It's not so difficult to create your own app like wallet, gas tracker and various things.

Are you into programming? it requires programming if you want to create a wallet for an altcoin. If you don't have, you'll be needing to hire a developer for you.
Stuff like this can't be done through questions but by hiring one who understands it and has experienced on it.
It's difficult if no experience and the skill needed.

It is best to contact a professional with such questions. This is about the safety and security of your money. It seems to me that it is better to use proven methods and not take risks at such a dangerous time. There are a lot of scammers who are just waiting and looking for any way to take your money.

Good afternoon! I see I need a wallet for android - I can help with that!
https://t.me/DevelCurrency (https://t.me/DevelCurrency)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=develcurrency.gsr.wallet (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=develcurrency.gsr.wallet)

You can fork from source code and create your altcoin. I don't call it as build an altcoin as the work is simply for coder. Scammers use source code, fork it and create scam altcoin without any product and value.

Applications don't have source code as I know. In my approach, I daren't accept and install application of unknown altcoins. My devices might be compromised by malwares, trojans, many threats and they can steal my bitcoin or my exchange account.

Not sure if there's any open source in Github but you could check it out in there if you have the time. I believe there would be many open-source project there you could contribute.
To make an Android Application? Correct me if I am wrong but mostly you'll need to learn programming languages like Java when you use Android SDK. You could use programming languages like C in Native Dev kits.

By the way, it isn't just the languages you should need to learn. You would often hear/read OOP , functional programming, procedural, etc. Those are some paradigms of programming and you'll need to learn how do they differ as well because some languages like Java which is an OOP language differ on how you write codes. Class-based? Functional-based? It depends.

Otherwise, just hire a developer but from how you write, it seems like you have some knowledge about forking projects mostly by codings.

Nice question in this forum, But you must know about the Blockchain development team. Because the main algorithm of Blockchain is NodeJS coding and it is more hard to develop in single person. Majority of the peoples just thinking the altcoin development and they plan to create a new coin. But reality it is big process and those are know about the Blockchain they maintain some tricks so try to analyse and fix the perfect manner.

Actually you can make android applications for altcoins. however your altcoin application must have a clear objective, build a community and you must understand how your altcoin will work. because to make an altcoin application, you must have the technology that is the basis of the altcoin and also you must understand about coding

If you are looking information about how to develop an android app (https://www.cleveroad.com/blog/how-to-make-an-app-for-android), I recommend this article. Here well-described all development steps and answers for most popular question.