Google Releases a Creation Tool For Do It Yourself Applications
Google has now released a new software tool which now makes it easy for people to be able to create an application for their Android smartphone. What the goal is, is allowing the consumer to be able to be a creator instead of solely a consumer within the mobile world. The only reason that this is able to be done is the fact that the architecture of Android is open.
The company, based out of Mountain View, California, stated that the free software, which is called the Google Application Inventor for Android, allows people that have little to no practical knowledge when it comes to programming to be able to drag and drop create. They do this with “blocks” of code which are shown to them as a graphical image which is representative of various capabilities of smartphones. It then combines them in a way which is similar to putting together something like Lego blocks.
For an example, there was one tester who made an application that told a list of their friends with a short text message where he was every fifteen minutes. He combined three blocks of code to put the program together:
• The first block showed the phone location
• The next showed a clock (set for intervals of fifteen minutes)
• The third then linked a listing of his selected friends
Obviously these applications aren’t going to be the most slick and pristine but they’re the programs that can be made by ordinary people and can often be completed in merely a matter of minutes.
Google stated that they’ve had this system in the works for just about a year and they’ve been doing testing in schools which included students in sixth grade, girls in high school, nursing students and also university undergraduates that aren’t computer science majors.
Through the simplification of the development process, especially when it comes to younger people, the internet giant hopes that they can open the innovation doors for their Android mobile OS. It hopes that they will be able to get the upper hand when it comes to the application arms race. Their arch rival Apple, who manages the iPhone development tightly, has the current lead with over 225,000 applications in their online store.
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