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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Android App Inventor is amazing!

Android App Inventor, is one of the most amazing tools I have used recently.

In about 10 minutes I built an application that shows you a random color and asks you what color it is. When you press the color it listens what you say, and based on the color you say it says correct or wrong. Again, although pretty basic functionality, it took me 10 minutes and zero, and I repeat, zero lines of code.

More amazing things about it, it runs in the browser. No IDEs needed. And as you make changes to the UI layout, you can view them in the phone's UI.

Rules building is very simple via its Java UI. (Apparently uses MIT's OpenBlocks)

It still misses some basic functionality around better formatting the screens and adding additional pages, downloading the source code to make additional changes, but I am sure they will soon be available.

Here are the simple rules on how the application should behave that I built using its very intuitive UI.




Here is the simple screen layout.



Unfortunately I still have not figured out how to publish these apps on the market yet. I am sure if I dig around more I can, and when I do, I will publish them :-)

Bottom line, this is amazing, and will revolutionize mobile phone application development.

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