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Google fashions Android dev kit for dummies (from Scratch) 
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Google has unveiled an experimental tool that lets non-developers develop applications for Android phones. This Google Labs project is known as App Inventor for Android, and it's based on platforms built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including Scratch, the well-known visual web app builder designed for non-programmers as young as eight years old.


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Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:23 pm
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I guess this is their way of catching up with the number of apps on Apple's store.
How good many of them will be is debatable, but I guess lowering the barrier of entry can only be a good thing in general.

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