App inventor for android and similar tools

App Inventor for Android and Similar Tools Friedger Müffke 29 July 2010

Tools to Build Apps for Android App Inventor Educational DroidDraw Layout Editor Droidbreeder native Browser-based MobiForms PhoneGap Graphical Titanium XMLVM Professional J2MEPolish Eclipse-based QtDesigner Cross-platform BlueJ/Greenfoot Adobe Flash Professional Bondi/JIL Development Terminal console free Runtime required 29 July 2010

App Inventor for Android http://appinventor.googlelabs.com ● For Teaching, based on ● Open Block Library/Scratch Language and ● Kawa Language Framework ● Designer ● Block Editor ● Connector 29 July 2010

App Inventor: Designer ● WYSIWYG editor for layout ● Visual and non-visual components ● Written in Scheme language Let's open the IDE 29 July 2010

App Inventor: Blocks Editor ● Programming part ● Prefedined blocks (logic, procedures, ..) ● Access to screen components ● Puzzle like programming 29 July 2010

App Inventor: Limitations ● Do file I/O ● Create a custom object and instances of it ● Copy and paste stuff ● Easily print your program (some people like to) ● Access the phone’s capabilities list ● Use Bluetooth ● Delete stuff without saying “Yes I’m sure” (from Mark Murphy) There is a long wishlist by app developers on appinventor@googlegroups.com 29 July 2010

DroidDraw / Layout Editor Generate XML for Layout 29 July 2010

DroidBreeder ● Free, by Axxessio ● Generates full source code ● Extended projects wizzard ● Settings ● GPS ● Maps ● Database ● Connection ● GUI 29 July 2010

MobiForms ● Generate full apps ● 99 GBP ● Database centric ● Cross-Platform Java-VM required 29 July 2010

Phone Gap ● Open Source, free ● HTML and Javascript ● Cross-platform browser-based with interface to device ● Sony Ericsson WebSDK, etc... 29 July 2010

Titanium ● Open Source, free SDK, paid services ● Cross-platform Android and iPhone ● Generates native source code from HTML/JS 29 July 2010

XMLVM ● Open Source, free ● Tool chain, no IDE ● Converts ● Source Code to XML ● XML to Java byte code 29 July 2010

J2MEPolish ● Open Source, free ● Cross-platform generates native apps ● Java-based development 29 July 2010

Runtime required Runtime Tool Qt for Android Qt Designer Java Applet Runner BlueJ/Greenfoot Flash/Air Adobe Flash Professional HTML Widget Runner Jil/BONDI Development AES Terminal Console 29 July 2010

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