App Inventor allows you to build applications for Android if if you have no experience of programming. Instead of writing code, simply design how you want the application to look and use pre-built blocks to specify the application behaviour.
There are blocks for almost everything you can do on an Android phone as well as specific blocks for doing “programming stuff”.
Watch it in action in the following 60 second video showing an application being made.
The blocks editor uses the Open Blocks Java library for creating visual blocks programming languages. Open Blocks is distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Scheller Teacher Education Program and derives from thesis research by Ricarose Roque. We thank Eric Klopfer and Daniel Wendel of the Scheller Program for making Open Blocks available and for their help in working with it. Open Blocks visual programming is closely related to the Scratch programming language , a project of the MIT Media Laboratory’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group.
To find out more about App Inventor go to
http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/index.html
Dell are now talking in more detail about their 5-inch Android Tablet device.
At 5 inches it’s slightly bigger than an iPhone, but does that make it a tablet?
Features include:
- 5-inch capacitive multi-touch display
- Fast 1GHz Snapdragon ARM-based mobile processor from Qualcomm
- 5 MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash
- VGA front-facing camera
- A user-removable (and replaceable) battery
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- Integrated 3G + Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + Bluetooth 2.1
- UMTS / GPRS / EDGE class 12 GSM radio with link speeds of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps / HSUPA
- User-accessible Micro SD slot expandable up to 32GB
The Streak will launch initially in the UK in early June (at O2 and the Carphone Warehouse stores and the Dell Uk Website) followed later in the summer in the US at prices yet to be announced.
Read more at
http://content.dell.com/uk/en/corp/d/press-releases/2010-05-25-dell-streak.aspx
PhoneGap is an open source development framework for creating mobile applications using HTML and JavaScript.
As simple as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Software development is hard work. Device integration should be simple so you can focus on the application you are building instead of authoring complex compatibility layers. PhoneGap aims to solve device integration by web enabling devices native functionality with open standards.
http://www.phonegap.com/
It enables you to build mobile applications for a number of devices while still taking advantage of the core features available in the iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs.
There is a “Wiki” of information available at:
http://wiki.phonegap.com/
PhoneGap can be downloaded from
http://www.phonegap.com/download
where you can also obtain a device simulator application.
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