Need An App For Your Android Phone? Invent It!

Using an Android-based smartphone does have its perks. If you need a particular app but it doesn’t exist anywhere, you can roll your own.

"But I’m not a programmer", you may say. Well, Google took that into consideration and put together the App Inventor.

This short video explains how it works in a nutshell:

As you can see, it’s not exactly a 1-2-3 super-easy thing, however it is a whole lot easier compared to manually coding an app yourself – even if you are a programmer. Lots of drag-and-drop involved, and thoughtful ‘puzzle piece’ style layout so it’s easy to connect things together to have your app perform certain functions.

You can check it out at appinventor.googlelabs.com.

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4 comments

  1. Cool. I wonder the limitations of creating your own App.

  2. brother DR-350 /

    Let’s do some interesting apps!=)

  3. I am still thinking will windows phone make the market like Android phones?

  4. If you can invent an android app or any app for that matter that is halfway decent you will be retiring early its that lucrative.

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