Develop Android Apps Using App Inventor Without Any Programming Skills
If you ever fancied your self developing some super app for Android, then there is some good news for you. Google has released the App Inventor For Android that is totally based on interactive graphical user interface and you don’t have to be a programmer to make your own apps.
According to Google:
You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.
But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android’s text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.
To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior.
This App Inventor kit comes with blocks that allow you to add different features in Android which were previously added with hard-core programming. Some of these important blocks are the blocks for putting loops, store information and perform different tasks under varied and altering conditions. No doubt App Inventor will quickly become famous among novice app creators who have an urge to make their own stuff.
Simple but Powerful!
App Inventor is simple to use, but also very powerful. Apps you build can even store data created by users in a database, so you can create a make-a-quiz app in which the teachers can save questions in a quiz for their students to answer.
Because App Inventor provides access to a GPS-location sensor, you can build apps that know where you are. You can build an app to help you remember where you parked your car, an app that shows the location of your friends or colleagues at a concert or conference, or your own custom tour app of your school, workplace, or a museum.
You can write apps that use the phone features of an Android phone. You can write an app that periodically texts “missing you” to your loved ones, or an app “No Text While Driving” that responds to all texts automatically with “sorry, I’m driving and will contact you later”. You can even have the app read the incoming texts aloud to you (though this might lure you into responding).
App Inventor provides a way for you to communicate with the web. If you know how to write web apps, you can use App Inventor to write Android apps that talk to your favorite web sites, such as Amazon and Twitter.
We wish best of luck to the aspiring app inventors and hope to see and test your apps soon. If you have created any app, just let us know and we will be happy to review it.
I have used this app..and this thing downloads something to our phone memory…and I have very less phone memory..so I want to know where the data is stored or how to delete the data…plsss telll….
You don’t have to be a programmer, but if you are not, it won’t be easy.
Tersus (www.tersus.com) does the same, but it is more mature, open source, visual programming that indeed requires no programming, and is cross-device (iPhone and Android).