Google App Inventor for Android gives virtually anybody the power to create their own smartphone apps. You do not have to know any code to create mobile apps for Android phone with App Inventor, a new tool in Google Labs. Use App Inventor to drag and drop the essential building blocks of smartphone apps to create unique Android functionality from scratch.
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Will App Inventor start free-for-all in Android market?
As smartphones become the computers people rely on most, individuals should be able to create their own apps, Google said in Monday’s announcement of App Inventor for Android . The New York Times reports that Google is opening its technology to all developers in hopes of dominated the Android market, and App Inventor is the latest element of that strategy. Google’s arch rival Apple has an infamously restrictive approach to application development for the iPhone. The strategy appears to be working within the Android/Apple battle. In the first quarter this year, Android phones outsold Apple’s iPhone.
App Inventor freaks out the geeks
The gist of App Inventor is that if anybody can develop apps, Android will dethrone the iPhone as the dominant mobile platform. Geeks within the upper echelons of the programming world don’t like this part of Google’s Android/Apple market strategy. 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 laments the rise of WYSIWYG HTML editors, saying the tools that made it easy for any person to create web pages easily filled the web with garbage.
App Inventor – useless is within the eyes of the beholder
App Inventor is a reflection of the low bar that has been set by the quality of Android apps so far, 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. There can be clunkers but marketplace demand will decide what is or is not useless. Apple’s App Store has more than 225,000 apps. With the introduction of App Inventor, AndroidLib estimates that the Android market will easily have more than 100,000 mobile apps.
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