Is it possible to create custom calculators both for website and for Android app?

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I have never programmed anything but I would like to understand which is the best programming language to create customized calculators like this:


The goal would be to create a series of calculators like this (some can be pretty complex), divided into various categories and have them both on my wordpress site and on an application for Android.

I am particularly confused because looking online you will find several things that (perhaps) can achieve the result:
  1. There are wordpress plugins to create forms and calculators (I don't know how complex)
  2. Some recommend learning javascript
  3. Other PHP
  4. Then there are plugins that are able to create a web interface starting from google sheet (which seems very convenient in theory), and even systems that do the same thing to create android applications always starting from google sheets.

The ideal would be to create calculators that work well for both wordpress and android, so as not to work twice (calculators that can be "put" both on the site and in the app).

Since I've never created anything like this I wanted to hear your views on it.
I am willing to learn a lot for this project so I would like to understand the best way to do it (but taking into account that I have never done coding).
 
I have never programmed anything but I would like to understand which is the best programming language to create customized calculators like this:



The goal would be to create a series of calculators like this (some can be pretty complex), divided into various categories and have them both on my wordpress site and on an application for Android.

I am particularly confused because looking online you will find several things that (perhaps) can achieve the result:
  1. There are wordpress plugins to create forms and calculators (I don't know how complex)
  2. Some recommend learning javascript
  3. Other PHP
  4. Then there are plugins that are able to create a web interface starting from google sheet (which seems very convenient in theory), and even systems that do the same thing to create android applications always starting from google sheets.

The ideal would be to create calculators that work well for both wordpress and android, so as not to work twice (calculators that can be "put" both on the site and in the app).

Since I've never created anything like this I wanted to hear your views on it.
I am willing to learn a lot for this project so I would like to understand the best way to do it (but taking into account that I have never done coding).

You simply need to develop your calculator using HTML, CSS and JS. But I would recommend you use a Framework that is very optimized for Mobile devices. I used to use Framework7 or ionic Framework. Framework7 is just a css and js library. Ionic is a little bit more. But I prefer F7 due to its simplicity.

After the development, use something like Cordova to wrap your project into an Android App. Cordova also has plugins that allows you call Native Android and IOS features right from Javascript. For example, you want to add a cool Camera feature that allows users take a photo of an equation and automatically works out the answer, this is still possible with the Camera plugin in Cordova.

Check it out
 
You simply need to develop your calculator using HTML, CSS and JS. But I would recommend you use a Framework that is very optimized for Mobile devices. I used to use Framework7 or ionic Framework. Framework7 is just a css and js library. Ionic is a little bit more. But I prefer F7 due to its simplicity.

After the development, use something like Cordova to wrap your project into an Android App. Cordova also has plugins that allows you call Native Android and IOS features right from Javascript. For example, you want to add a cool Camera feature that allows users take a photo of an equation and automatically works out the answer, this is still possible with the Camera plugin in Cordova.

Check it out
thanks for the indications man, I though nobody was ever going to answer to this. You gave me a lot of detail to think about!
 
Glad I could help.
I used to be very obsessed with Hybrid Apps using Cordova. But I eventually realized that to make a Huge App using Cordova that has a similar performance with Native code will take almost as much time as writing to separate Native codes so I stopped.

But for an App as simple as a Calculator, Hybrid tech is much more suitable. And most recent devices (>2017) will not even notice a performance issue.
 
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