Thursday 26 January 2012

Android Users Can Create Applications Easily

After we experienced the craze of the TV mobile phones with the FIFA World Cup, we come to learn the new service which is used for the Android mobile phone. According to the New York Times online, starting this week, Google will provide the common Android mobile users with a free tool which enables the users to create the application program according to their own needs.

Google laboratory currently has published the new service named App-Inventor-for-Android (The inventor of Android application). As the modular and graph program is applied in the Android mobile, the users who don't understand the complicated coding and programing can create their own applications.

It's said that the Google tool is named as the Google App Inventor for Android. In the passed year, Google kept testing the tool. The students are mainly targeted. And computer is not the major of the students involved in the test. Google declared that the reason why the tool was launched is that the public relies on mobile phone more than the computer. Thus, the common users should be entitled to create the program themselves.

The projector leader and computer scientist of MIT, Harold Abelson, said, "The users are expected to be the technology creator as well as the consumers through the project."

As Google provides the users with the program creating tool, the openness of Android technology will be further strengthened. More external developers will join in the team. Different from Google, strict managing measures for external developers are taken in iPhone application store.

Abelson said, "We do it on the condition that the Android is an open architecture." He said that the creating tool is mainly targeted at the young people. The tool performance is simple at present. The improved performance will win more users in the future.

For instance, a student from University of San Francisco creates a SMS responder program with the tool. If the student received a message when driving, there would be an automatic response "I'm driving now, send me message later please."

The tool is only applicable to Android mobile phone at present. If the Android mobile users want to use it, they should login the Gmail first. The tool itself is based on the internet operation. The user should download the software and install it in the computer. During the creating of the application program, the users should connect the Android mobile to the computer with USB.

The service is still in the testing process. The users are provided with the dragging operation of the button, picture and flash. The control of the GPS, SMS, call and network data will be presented in the graphics interface. The whole developing system is based on the online operation. In addition, the synchronous display program of Android mobile should be downloaded which can be used for real time display.

At present, the Android application inventors have started the testing work on the college students whose major is not in computers. Many small applications have been created including the SMS automated responding, the searching for the car, quiz and virtual drum.

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