Interesting article and video about Google releasing an app to let "non-programmers" make their own Android Apps. Google is launching a new tool on Monday that lets anyone create an app for Android phones.
Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App
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I'm surprised nobody talked about that new google lab product :
http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
It's seems a lot more polished and easy to use than the eclipse plugin.
App Inventor for Android is an application originally provided by Google, and now maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
It allows anyone familiar with computer programming to create software applications for the Android operating system (OS). It uses a graphical interface, very similar to Scratch and the StarLogo TNG user interface, that allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application that can run on the Android system, which runs on many mobile devices.
The application was made available through request on July 12, 2010, and released publicly on December 15, 2010. Google terminated App Inventor on December 31, 2011. The MIT Center for Mobile Learning is now supporting it under the name "MIT App Inventor".
Does any one know of a text editor on android optimized for programmers, like g-edit?
View 2 Replies View RelatedOf course, i am sure you have but I thought I'd throw it out there may be useful. App Inventor for Android?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have created an app with the app inventor and now I would like to upload the application to the android market. When I try this, I get the error "Upload a valid APK." Anybody any idea how I can get around this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHas anyone get a App Inventor account? I'd like to get an account to develop some programs, but now what can I do is just waiting.
View 9 Replies View RelatedGot my email granting me access to App Inventor yesterday. Sadly, I've been swamped at work and swamped at home and probably won't have any chance to even look at it until the weekend. Anyone else get their e-mail? Is it all it's cracked up to be?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been playing round with app inventor and was thinking of making an app and the putting it on the market. I have had a look around the internet and have found mixed reports of weather this is possible. some say app inventor apps can not be put on the market and others say they can.Does anybody know which it is? I dont want to pay for access to the market if i am not going to be able to upload to it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI signed for up this quite a few weeks back now but as of yet haven't heard anything.Has anyone been granted access yet?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have made my own app with App inventor but i can't upload it to the market i payed the 25$ so.. did that go to total waste?I found a guide cus i know there is a problem with the icon or something here is the site that i found a guide on : http://www.androidworld.it/forum/app-inventor-91/[how-]-publish-app-created-app-inventor-android-market-4597/Could some one who know how to fix this problem maybe help me or make a Youtube video like How to.so i can see how you do.Please i know there is some way to upload it.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install app inventor on my Samsung intercept.I have gone through the steps in the set up computer and phone.When it was time to plug in the USB connection the two notifications did not display.Please, if anyone knows of any additional steps I need to take I would appreciate some advise.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow can you scroll down in the Blocks Editor window?It lets me scroll down a little, but not to the end of my (lengthy) code.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs Google Latitude available in the UK or not, because it doesn't seem to be working for me? I have received the RC9 update for G1 and have Google Maps 3.0. Is there an a Google Latitude application that I should have or do I access everything through Google Maps? When I go the www.google.com/latitude on my G1, it offers me the option of "launching" Latitude but it just takes me to Google Maps. From there, I cannot see the locations of my Google "friends" (who have agreed to show location), neither does my own location show up on the Latitude homepage on the web (I have settings turned to "detect my location automatically").
View 13 Replies View RelatedI know this is off-topic, well not totally off topic. The inventor of the cellphone Marty Cooper was on the recent 60 minutes. I thought it was a great story, well put together and talked about CTIA and Android (eventhough he uses a droid). Just thought I'd share. The Cell Phone: Marty Cooper's Big Idea - 60 Minutes - CBS News
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there any reason you should not use app inventor with a rooted phone? (eris)
View 4 Replies View RelatedI currently have a dial-up connection and I was wondering if there was an offline version of app inventor or if I could somehow use IIS and host the source. If a big file needs to be downloaded I can go to the library with my laptop.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWell I've been messing with app inventor and I'm comfortable with it now and would like to make an app that uses superuser permissions. To add to plainjane. But haven't found out how to call the su app let alone how to implement it with app inventor. how to call and maybe how to implement it to app inventor?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have tried using App2Market to let the Eclipse read the app but it can't. Is there any way to make this done ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI created an app in app inventor and it works, but to understand what I have created I want to do code instead...I have there pages.
1. Page one front cover enter app
2. A control page
3. a settings page.
The settings page is what I am working on now, and I have links to all of the three pages.The settings page in here is a list of values, some we add to and can select on another page, others we select from a fixed list based on the items in a list.eg. I have and English list and a Russian list and Danish list. Each list contains 5 pre determined hardcoded values Value1,2 3 4 and 5, these values are populated from the selected list and saved and then can be used elsewhere.
In app inventor, I use a listpicker to select from the list of 3 languages, the index is used to report the 5 corresponding values English, Danish and Russian are items in language_array..The values arent anywhere as yet as dont know where to put them.
In app inventor I have the languages Tag for each language and on for each value.When I select the langiage with the list picker, it gets the values from the stored tags and displays them in a text field for each value.
English -------> Value 1 English
Value 2 English
Value 3 English
Value 4 English
Value 5 English
Russian -------> Value 1 Russian
Value 2 Russian
Value 3 Russian
Value 4 Russian
Value 5 Russian
Danish -------> Value 1 Danish
Value 2 Danish
Value 3 Danish
Value 4 Danish
Value 5 Danish
these values are stored in tinyDB with a tag.I then recall stored tag Value 1 into a command.for now I would be happy if I can create the list in eclipse and recall these value, storing them on and recalling them will come later.I have tried spinner, alert dialog but keep getting various errors.
I'm using App Inventor to develop a small game as Mole Bash.
The tutorial I'm following shows me how to make an Image Sprite appear on random locations given a certain amount of time.
I'd like to give the Image Sprite a list of 9 coordinates where he should position the image after the given amount of time in a random way.
So, I believe it should go something like this:
Procedure - Moveto - x1 OR x2 OR x3 AND y1 OR y2 OR y3
I can't seem to get the logic command OR on this procedure, since it will only let me give a min and max number for both x and y.
I have been working with app inventor and Iam trying to make a tiny wings port with this tool.
What I have accomplished so far
1) I have the tiny wings charactor heading downward angeled left when screen starts
2) When the tiny wings charactor lands on the ground , he bounces upward at angle
3) When you press the screen the tiny wings charactor will make a quick dive down.
4) I have a score thats triggered when the bird collides with the ground
5) Reset button to reposition the tiny wings bird.
Need to :
1) Making the screen scroll to the right
2) Making platforms appear as screen goes to the right
3) Who to contact so I can make a larger file size game, so that I can add the music
4) Can make music and sound files smaller and compressed, can I get your email address ?
Need in future:
1) Restart and reset game
2) Change animations
Goal
To show how you can make great games with app inventor by making a tiny wings type clone game. I want app inventor to be put on the map and to further promote app inventor.
I am currently developing an android application uses Google map API. I am wondering does all android devices support map API, becuase this api is an optianal api and it is an add-on to the platform. I am worried that my application won't be able to run on that device. What I need to know is programatically detect wether the device support map API, and catch the exception and do something else.
Because, using map capability is only one of features of my application, I would like to let those devices that doesn't support map api are still able to download and run my application with out effecting other features of my app.
Is there an app on the market that would allow me to receive and send texts through Google Voice? The layout of Google Voice's app gets annoying when I want to just compose a message to someone but I first have to back out to the inbox.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to develop an android application and I want to know if it is possible to use google map inside a building for example a university for directing a student for a specific office.
View 1 Replies View Relateddoes anyone really use Google Talk for texting, what are the advantages... if there's any. Why would you use the talk (google/Gmail) App instead of the other texting Apps/programs.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am launching Google map application from my application, using
Uri.parse("geo:" + "13.042206" + "," + "80.17000?z=10");
and its working fine. But I want to show direction between two latitudes and longitudes, for that I tried using this uri,
Uri.parse("geo:" + "13.042206" + "," + "80.17000" + "geo:" + "9.580000" + "," + "78.100000?z=10");
But I am getting a Toast telling "Unable to load the url".
The Nexus One promo video on its YouTube channel demos a Google Earth app toward the middle of the video.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to know if I can use the data (for example a tour from point A to point B) and extract it for example to save the tour infos to an text file or post it somewhere or do whatever I want with it? I want to use maps as a database, so what are the restrictions, what am I allowed to do?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am writing an application (on v1.0) that needs to search Google maps for the nearest facility to my current location e.g. What are the nearest bike shops. I looked at googlenav.Search but this has been deprecated for some reason. I did look at the Qype APIs but gave up early as these were difficult to use.
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