App Inventor for Android - Android Software Development for Everyone

Re:App Inventor for Android - Android Software Development f... by torpor on Monday July 12, 2010 @05:36AM (#1507318)

Meh. Wake me up when you can use the device itself to write software for the device. Until then, the barrier to entry is still too high.

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Re:App Inventor for Android - Android Software Development f... by camtarn on Monday July 12, 2010 @07:08AM (#1507457)

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

"The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android application"

Not as simple as Inventor, but pretty powerful.

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Re:App Inventor for Android - Android Software Development f... by mikecarlucci on Monday July 12, 2010 @08:17AM (#1507563)

Think about people who don't have an Android phone and are deciding between that and the iPhone. If you are a casual tech person who keeps their machine in good shape, edits a bit of HTML/CSS from templates but hasn't taken the full leap into programming this could be the turning point.

Just like during elections the key isn't the hard core linux user or the unwashed masses who can't use their remote, it's the independents/people in the middle.

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