I spent around 90 minutes this morning cranking away on a few test applications in App Inventor, and while I’m very excited about it, this is not going to be a walk in the park for “ordinary people”.

Despite the belief of some skeptics that Google’s new, free development software, App Inventor, will flood the Android market with useless apps, it’s not necessarily true that this product will lower ...

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Android has a reputation as an open and accessible platform, especially for developers. That might be why MIT rolled out its App Inventor online tool that lets you use a drag-and-drop palette of ...

Last time, I described how to write a simple Android app and get it talking to your code on Linux. So, of course, we need an example. Since I’ve been on something of a macropad kick lately, I decided ...