Google Tool Lets 'Anyone' Make Android Apps

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Google tool lets 'anyone' make Android apps

Google has unveiled a tool designed to allow anyone to create simple applications for smartphones running its Android operating system.

App Inventor for Android "makes it easy for anyone - programmers and non-programmers, professionals and students - to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices," Google said in a blog post

"To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer," Google said. "App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge."

Instead of writing code, App Inventor allows a user to visually design an application using Lego-like "blocks" of code.

Certain blocks are programmed, for example, to store information, others to repeat an action and others to perform an action only under certain conditions.

Full story: theage.com.au

-- 2010-07-13

[Tywais]

Thanks for that info. Was planning on downloading the Android SDK (probably will anyway) but will see how this works.

[phazey]

You'll need the SDK to push your created .apk's to the device. I'm quite looking forwards to this.

[Changian]

Invites have been sent for the Beta version of AppInventor. Got mine today. But no time to play around with it for a few days.

Which TV member will have the first AppInventor app out?