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Google has just launched a new tool that allows anyone to just simply create an Android Application. To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires no programming knowledge at all. You visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior instead of writing code.
The App Inventor team has created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing “programming-like” stuff– blocks to store information, blocks for repeating actions, and blocks to perform actions under certain conditions. There are even blocks to talk to services like Twitter.
If App Inventor is so simple that schoolchildren can make apps, some those same children will soon become coders themselves … and perhaps choose to develop Android apps rather than iPhone.
Give App Inventor a try! Head on to http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ to learn more about it.
Sources:
http://mashable.com/2010/07/12/google-app-inventor/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/android-app-inventor-lets-you-be-the-developer-video/
Tags: Android, app inventor, apps, Google, mobile apps