Google Release Code To ‘Create Your Own App’ For Android Phones

July 13th, 2010 by Geoff

As the demands of consumers expand in the world of mobile phone technology, such has Google’s involvement in developing tools that make it easy for anyone to create programs for Android phones.

Today’s release of the DIY Code is the result of over 12 months of investment that Google has made in developing a system geared towards encouraging people with limited experience in programming to create such programs. The system is described to work in the same way as ‘Lego’ as users ‘drag blocks of code’ around to create applications.

In testing across school children and college students in the US, one tester of the ‘App Inventor’ used the GPS locator, timer and database querying blocks to produce an app that told his friends his location every 15 minutes.

It is expected that by the end of July the number of ‘apps’ on offer for users of Android Phones will surpass the 100,000 mark. However, it still has some way to go to compete with the 200,000+ number of ‘apps’ available for users of Apple’s iPhone.

Tutorials are provided to help people get started with the tools. Users wanting to use the tools require a Gmail account as well as applying via a web form for the latest development by Google.

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