Friday, July 15, 2011

App Inventor for Android @ Google Labs

App Inventor for Android @ Google Labs

Creating Android (web) applications as a visual puzzle.
Could be great for kids, too...

Creating an App Inventor app begins in your browser, where you design how the app will look. Then, like fitting together puzzle pieces, you set your app's behavior. All the while, through a live connection between your computer and your phone, your app appears on your phone.



What is App Inventor

Hands-On With Google’s Android App Inventor (Jul. 21, 2010)
The puzzle-piece approach may look familiar to some because it’s based on Scratch, a programming environment developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Google has leveraged the Open Blocks Java Library project — also an M.I.T. export — and added Android-specific bits to the compiler, so you can create an actual .apk, or software installation of your app for Android phones

InfoQ: HTML5 and the Dawn of Rich Mobile Web Applications

InfoQ: HTML5 and the Dawn of Rich Mobile Web Applications

Excellent presentation about Mobile Web Apps with HTML5
by James Pearce, Director, Developer Relations @ sencha.com