Google (GOOG) Creates 'Apps For Dummies' Tool for Android
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With the ongoing debate between Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android OS and Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) OS 4, the issue usually boils down to who has more apps available for users.
Well, Google may have shifted the momentum in their favor. On the official Google Blog today, the company announced a new program that would allow regular folks, who don't have programming experience, the ability to create their own app for the Android OS.
The editor, dubbed 'App Inventor,' allows for users to "drag-and-drop" specific procedures (through Open Blocks Java Library), and is compiled by the Kawa language framework to create an app. You need to request an invitation from Google to begin programming.
The site has a mess of tutorials that are easy to understand, interactive, and to the point.
Want to make an app to help you find your car? Want to make an app that automatically replies to text messages while you're driving? Would you love to make an app that helps you to study? Done.
Apple doesn't have a comparable program out yet, but that doesn't mean that one isn't in the works.
On the other hand, some say that Google should have spent their time to give developers better tools. Also, advanced developers, creating the next "killer app" probably won't waste their time developing an application if there is going to be no financial reward.
Shares of Google are trading 1.79% to $475.88.
Shares of Apple are trading 0.66% lower to $257.90, though that may also be due in part to Consumer Reports not recommending the iPhone 4.
Well, Google may have shifted the momentum in their favor. On the official Google Blog today, the company announced a new program that would allow regular folks, who don't have programming experience, the ability to create their own app for the Android OS.
The editor, dubbed 'App Inventor,' allows for users to "drag-and-drop" specific procedures (through Open Blocks Java Library), and is compiled by the Kawa language framework to create an app. You need to request an invitation from Google to begin programming.
The site has a mess of tutorials that are easy to understand, interactive, and to the point.
Want to make an app to help you find your car? Want to make an app that automatically replies to text messages while you're driving? Would you love to make an app that helps you to study? Done.
Apple doesn't have a comparable program out yet, but that doesn't mean that one isn't in the works.
On the other hand, some say that Google should have spent their time to give developers better tools. Also, advanced developers, creating the next "killer app" probably won't waste their time developing an application if there is going to be no financial reward.
Shares of Google are trading 1.79% to $475.88.
Shares of Apple are trading 0.66% lower to $257.90, though that may also be due in part to Consumer Reports not recommending the iPhone 4.
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