Google App Inventor for Android gives virtually anyone 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.
App Inventor blows lid off Android market
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 to gain the upper hand in the Android market, App Inventor is one more way for Google is 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 in the Android/Apple battle. Android phones outsold Apple’s iPhone in 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. Geeks in the upper echelons of the programming world do not like this part of Google’s Android/Apple market strategy. Tech Crunch calls App Inventor “ugly” and wonders if it is either a “gateway drug for Android app development” or “a Doomsday device that will muck up native app development on the platform” . Tech Crunch also compared App Inventor to the popularization of WYSIWYG HTML editors, which it said making web pages easy to create filled the web with garbage.
App Inventor – one person’s trash is an additional person’s treasure
That App Inventor is viable says something about the mediocre quality of Android apps up to this point, said Larry Dignan at ZDNet. Many apps are simply useless on iPhone as well as Android, he said. But the fact that “useless is in the eyes of the beholder” is the beauty of App Inventor. The marketplace will separate the wheat from the chaff. Apple’s App Store at the moment has more than 225,000 apps for sale. 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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