The Android Operating System has opened up various possibilities for both its users and developers. At different times, users must have wanted to create their own Android app or to create their own Android games but they are put off by the sheer amount of reading and coding that this will require.
Once again, the Android team over at Google has made this almost impossible task possible for its users with the introduction of the App Inventor.
With this straightforward yet powerful program, the user can, in theory, create complex apps with the App Inventor. What makes this more interesting is that in order to create these apps, it is not mandatory that the user has programming background. This is what makes the App Inventor user-friendly, unique and attractive.
How this can be done is via a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. What the user needs to do is to visually design how he or she wants the app to look like and then all that is required next is to set up the desired functionality of the app by using blocks. And this is the area where Google has done something very smart and impressive to help with the backend portion of the app development. Rather than showing the user lines after lines of codes, it concentrates on formatting everything that is required in the making of the app into blocks, thus making the actual codes transparent to the user.
With the App Inventor, the user can gain access to areas like communication, location awareness, social networking services like Twitter and massive Web based data collections for his/her apps.
Currently, the App Inventor is in Beta and accepting sign ups for the testing of the program.
The first thoughts that come to my mind when I see this program is: OMG, a Dreamweaver for Apps development? It will not be too far off to say that Dreamweaver revolutionizes HTML/website coding by making HTML more accessible and friendly to non-programmers and programmers alike. Can the App Inventor does the same for apps development? Only time will tell.
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