Google earlier this week launched a program that allows anyone to create simple applications on smartphones with Android operating system. "Inventor App for Android" facilitate all those programmers and non-programmers, professionals and students-to create an Android OS-based mobile phone applications.Google said in his blog post, "To use the App Inventor, you do not have to become a developer, this tool is NOT (capital letters from Google, ed.) Requiring knowledge of programming."
Instead of typing the code, 'App Inventor' allow a user to create applications visually by arranging code blocks such as children's toys 'Lego'.
Some of the 'code block' is already programmed, for example, to store information, repeat the action - repeat an action, and take action only under certain conditions. "You can make all kinds of applications you can imagine through the App Inventor," explains Google in a post in his blog.
App Inventor provides access to a sensor location - GPS, so that we can create an application that shows the location of a person. "You can make an application to know where you parked your car, an application that shows the location of your friends or colleagues when watching a concert or while attending conference, "Google added.
Android, an open source platform has been used by several leading handset manufacturers to support perangkatnya.Google, this Internet giant says more than 160,000 Android OS powered phones are sold each day.
