There is an article about it on ZDNet. I have to admit I am suspicious: I have seen such projects fail to offer what is promised too often in the past to believe the glowing description of App Inventor on ZDNet -- or in Google Labs.
As they pointed out in the ZDNet talkbacks: app development is hard. Good app development is even harder. The glowing promises of making everyone an app developer sweep these basic truths under the rug. There is another basic truth logically prior to both of these: developing a finished product has a deep analogy to figure skating. A good figure skater makes her impressive display look effortless. But in fact, there were years of effort in preparation for that one moment, years that hide beneath that polished moment of display. The same is true of good apps. There is a huge amount of effort, sometimes even years, that went into enabling the user to perform a useful and interesting task in just a few flicks and keystrokes. In short, App Inventor is more likely to prove useful for prototyping rather than for development of polished apps. On Jul 12, 5:59 am, Yahel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. > > Yahel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
