Google App Inventor to enable users to write applications
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 15:09 IST   |    9 Comments
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Google App Inventor to enable users to write applications
Bangalore: Google will offer a free software called Google App Inventor for Android, which is supposed to make it easier for users to write applications for its Android smartphones. The software has been under development for over a year. The new app has been tested in schools and universities who were not from computer science stream. This is a move to make users capable to make applications for themselves. "The goal is to enable people to become creators, not just consumers, in this mobile world," said Harold Abelson, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who led the project. Google wants to give it the upper hand in the smart phone software market by opening up its technology to all kinds of developers. "We could only have done this because Android's architecture is so open," Abelson added. The Google project intends to provide users a simple tool to let them explore with smartphone software. The latest application tool allows users to drag and drop blocks of code represented as graphic images and different smartphone capabilities. "These aren't the slickest applications in the world. But they are ones ordinary people can make, often in a matter of minutes," said Abelson. The Google tool works only for phones running Android software and a sign up with Google Gmail account is required. The web based tool is automatically in sync with the programs created on a personal computer, connected to the application inventor website with an android smartphone.

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