Google App Inventor for Android gives virtually anybody the power to create their own smartphone apps. It is easy for any person who doesn’t know any code to use App Inventor, a new tool in Google Labs for creating mobile apps. Instead of learning Android’s Java code, App Inventor lets you to drag and drop the fundamental building blocks of basic apps to build unique Android apps from scratch.
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App Inventor blows Android market wide open
Monday Google said App Inventor for Android was created because people should be able to create their own applications as smartphones become the computer relied upon most . The New York Times reports that App Inventor is one more element of Google’s strategy to gain the upper hand in the Android market by opening its technology to all developers. The strategy starkly contrasts that of Apple, Google’s main smartphone rival, which is known to have notoriously strict standards for iPhone app development. The strategy appears to be working within the Android/Apple battle. Within the first quarter this year, Android phones outsold Apple’s iPhone.
App Inventor upsets geek community
The concept behind App Inventor is that if everyone can be app creators, Android will supplant Apple’s iPhone as the dominant smartphone platform. Google’s Android/Apple market strategy doesn’t sit well with geeks within the ivory towers of the programming priesthood. Tech Crunch wonders if App Inventor is “a Doomsday device that will muck up native app development on the platform” and calls the program’s interface “ugly”. Tech Crunch laments the rise of WYSIWYG HTML editors, saying the tools that made it easy for anybody to create web pages quickly filled the web with garbage.
App Inventor – one person’s trash is an additional person’s treasure
App Inventor enters a landscape where the quality of Android apps is mediocre to begin with, said Larry Dignan at ZDNet. Dignan said numerous apps are simply useless on Android and iPhone. However, the beauty of App Inventor is that “useless is within the eye of the beholder”. What is, or is not useless could be determined by the marketplace. Apple’s App Store has more than 225,000 apps. AndroidLib estimates that with the introduction of App Inventor the Android marketplace will soon have more than 100,000 mobile apps.
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