Just about anyone can create their own Android apps with Google App Inventor. It is easy for everyone 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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Android market gets a jolt with App Inventor
App Inventor for Android, Google said Monday, was launched because as smartphones become the computers that people rely on most, users should be able to create their own applications . The New York Times reports that to gain the upper hand in the Android market, App Inventor is another way for Google is opening its technology to all developers. Apple, Google’s arch smartphone rival, has notoriously strict rules about app development for the iPhone. Within the Android/Apple battle, the strategy seems to be working. Android phones outsold Apple’s iPhone within the first quarter this year.
App Inventor upsets geek community
The concept behind App Inventor is that if every person can be app creators, Android will supplant Apple’s iPhone as the dominant smartphone platform. Programming geeks do not like the thought of their territory being violated by Google’s Android/Apple battle plan. App Inventor is “ugly” as outlined by Tech Crunch, which called the technology “a gateway drug for Android app development” and “a Doomsday device that will muck up native app development on the platform”. Tech Crunch compares App Inventor to the rise of WYSIWYG HTML editors, saying the web was easily filled with garbage once it was easy for every person to create web pages.
App Inventor welcomes newbie’s to fickle apps market
App Inventor enters a landscape where the quality of Android apps is mediocre to start with, said Larry Dignan at ZDNet. Numerous apps are simply useless on iPhone as well as Android, he said. But the fact “useless is in the eyes of the beholder” is the beauty of App Inventor. What is, or isn’t really useless can be determined by the marketplace. More than 225,000 apps are available at Apple’s Apps Store. 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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