lundi 12 juillet 2010

Android App Inventor

I've been talking about Google versus Apple's strategy to grow on smartphone market, and two years ago the iPhone developers used to work and shiny iPhone SDK. Coding on Android was not painful but we must admit that it was a little bit less comfortable than on iPhone. Apple is also famous for rejecting many applications that are not suitable with Steve Job's moral (or business). This fact makes Apple a tyranic but still attractive universe of design, usability, ... and censorship.
In the other hand, Google has recently shown that he could remotely delete apps on your Android Smartphone. Kind of evil too... But with Google, "it's for your safety".
The Linux openness was not enough, developers comfort is a very important point, who else to develop the best apps for the best device ever ? And what about the non developers ? How can they create their own small apps ? App Inventor is a project that aims to be a very usable and simple graphical toolkit to let you build small apps likes quizz or games on Android. "App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge" and lets monkeys build and run their own apps. The framework lets the user graphically specify and design it's app. Let's have a closer look with the following video :



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