Google App Inventor lets anyone build apps for an Android phone without any programming or coding experience. Create games and other apps using a friendly visual designer.
The App Inventor software runs through a web browser and uses the Java Web Start application. Simply connect your PC (or Mac) to your Android phone through the USB connection and any apps will appear live on the phone as you build them.
Note: You will need to download the App Inventor Extras software as well.
Using the App Inventor software you can build any thing from Android games to news readers. Simply drag and drop attributes, blocks and functions to create your app using the visual designer.
Using App Inventor you can:
* Build Android apps within hours
* Visually design android games
* Add media such as images and video
* Create databases to store information
* Select from features such as Button, Canvas, Clock, ListPicker and TinyDB
* Use Animation, Social communication, Sensors, Medica (images, video)
* Access the GPS location of the Android phone
* Use text to speech features
* Communicate with sites such as Twitter and Facebook
Requirements:
Operating system:
Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6
Windows: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
GNU/Linux: Ubuntu 8+, Debian 5+
Browser:
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and higher
Apple Safari 5.0 and higher
Google Chrome 4.0 and higher
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and higher
In general, the more updated the version of the browser, the better.
Java:
Your computer needs to run Java 6 (i.e., Java 1.6)
You can download Java from www.java.com.
Your browser needs to be configured so that it can start Java programs.
You can test whether Java is working on your computer and which version is installed at http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml
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Price: $0
Size: N/AMB
Released: 07/2010
Type: freewareCategory: Utilities
OS Support: Mac, Windows, Ubuntu
Keywords: android