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Android App Inventor from GoogleLabs

I am very excited about this DIY (do it yourself) tool! It will allow pretty much anybody (or any company) to quickly create a "brochure-ware" Android applications. The easier, the better! This will cause proliferation of apps for every occasion, you think of it and there will be an app for it. 

Am I afraid about my job? Not at all! 
I am sure that after using these simple apps some companies will want to add some hard-core features that will require a enterprise-class programmers and that is when I hope they call me. This is also a great chance for designers to shine! It will be also a great prototyping tool for developers. Unfortunately, a lot of mediocre development shops will have to step up, or they will loose their livelihood.

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

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Permalink Reply by Ariel Gamino on July 14, 2010 at 5:58am
It seems that it's not open to the public yet, it be nice to see it 'live' in one of your presentations Uki. Pretty cool stuff.
Permalink Reply by Fred Grott on July 14, 2010 at 8:31am
It also underscores another Google OHA trend that is other languages besides java on Android. In AppInvetor's case its Scala.
Permalink Reply by THorne on July 31, 2010 at 8:57am
How cool! Now I have lots of questions about what it can and can't do, guess I better do more reading up on it!

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