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Basically, Anybody with a decent IQ and little SDK/APK developer knowledge can come up with an app on the Android Marketplace now.
That's a good and bad thing cause it looks like Google is just trying to raise the App numbers in a very cheesy way to say 'Yea, Apple has 200,00 apps. Now the Android Marketplace has 3 billion...40 billion by next month".
But useful for ordinary people that don't know much about developing apps and want to learn. Some people are actually gonna come up with some decent ideas and Utility apps for us Android users instead of the 100,000 cheapo crap lite games that take up Apple's app store.
NT desperately needs a mobile version. I hate browsing NT on my phone.
Maybe this is a foot in the door for a decent NT app or mobile way of browsing it on our Android phones.
Google unveils Android App Inventor, no coding skill required
Ever wanted to create an Android app but just don't have the coding skills? Google's just greatly lowered the barrier for entry with the Android App Inventor. It's akin to Palm's Ares system (and we presume other development platforms? Hey, we're not coders, either) in that it's basically drag-and-drop, what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Hit a few buttons, and out spits an app.
A couple of worries about this:
Let's give Android App Inventor a shot and see where it goes. Certainly the idea is good, and it's worked out well for Palm with Ares. Hit up the source link to find out more, and there's a pretty video after the break, too. [Google App�Inventor
That's a good and bad thing cause it looks like Google is just trying to raise the App numbers in a very cheesy way to say 'Yea, Apple has 200,00 apps. Now the Android Marketplace has 3 billion...40 billion by next month".
But useful for ordinary people that don't know much about developing apps and want to learn. Some people are actually gonna come up with some decent ideas and Utility apps for us Android users instead of the 100,000 cheapo crap lite games that take up Apple's app store.
NT desperately needs a mobile version. I hate browsing NT on my phone.
Maybe this is a foot in the door for a decent NT app or mobile way of browsing it on our Android phones.
Google unveils Android App Inventor, no coding skill required
Ever wanted to create an Android app but just don't have the coding skills? Google's just greatly lowered the barrier for entry with the Android App Inventor. It's akin to Palm's Ares system (and we presume other development platforms? Hey, we're not coders, either) in that it's basically drag-and-drop, what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Hit a few buttons, and out spits an app.
A couple of worries about this:
- The Android Market is already flooded with hundreds (and likely thousands) of crappy apps. Let's call them crapps. And this is going to make it easier to make more crapps.
- This is bound to upset already established developers, right?�(Let us know in the comments, folks.)
- Again, crapps. There's been a lot of chatter over the weekend about how the Market's closing in on 100,000 apps�(according to sites like Androlib, anyway). And we're repeat what we have to say every time these milestone stories come up:�There are apps, and there are crapps. We'd rather have 10,000 quality apps than 100,000 crapps. (And never mind that the total includes ringtones, keyboards, wallpapers, etc.)
Let's give Android App Inventor a shot and see where it goes. Certainly the idea is good, and it's worked out well for Palm with Ares. Hit up the source link to find out more, and there's a pretty video after the break, too. [Google App�Inventor