A sad announcement that Google will discontinue App Inventor for Android by the end of the year. This is because App Inventor didn't make it out of the Google Labs programme and Labs itself is closing.
I'm a bit surprised to be honest, I thought they'd stick with it as it was and still is a great idea to get people interested in Android.
I was just getting into it too. Typical!
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Well, it had a good run... :)
welcome to the world of g where everything is beta ...
I am fairly dismayed to hear they are killing the Labs.
I did a couple apps with App Inventor, and although it took a lot of getting used to, once you understood the different layers of abstraction you can do some pretty impressive stuff.
I even felt like one of the apps was worth putting on the Market. https://market.android.com/details?id=appinventor.ai_timwebb.vTrack
It still required an understanding of programming though, so I can see how some could be disappointed by it.
App Inventor was a really cool. With all the difficulties I have to understand the concept of object oriented programming... AI was the only environment to provide sort of object orientation I could at least work with. Thank you, (insert some REALLY harsh words here) Google (here too)! Ok, now Android is obsolete for me. AI was the only thing that made it outstanding from mobile OSs, everything else you get more and better for iOS, especially music related things.
Sources says Google might release App Inventor to the open source world.
"Sources says Google might release App Inventor to the open source world."
To continue as a zombie framework. Nice job Google, nice job.
"To continue as a zombie framework. Nice job Google, nice job."
Oh I guess you prefer having no framework at all and just an SDK which requires you to understand programming?
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