How often do you hear your friends tell about their can’t-fail app idea? All too often, once someone first gets their hands on a smart phone running on one of the more modern and flashy operating systems like Google Inc.’a Android operating system, Apple Inc.’s iOS or Palm Inc./ Hewlett-Packard Co.’s webOS, they can’t wait to tell anyone who will listen about their idea for an app.
Problem is, very few smart phone users will ever learn how to develop an an app on their own. Instead, they’re left hoping someone else with developing skills will create the app their looking for and then, of course, they can always claim it was their idea first.
Thanks to Google (GOOG), a few more of your friends might be able to turn their app dreams into reality.
After testing for about a year, the company launched a do-it-yourself App Inventor tool that lets more people become one with the app revolution.
As operating systems have progressed, particularly the three aforementioned, the powers given to developers to create innovative apps for smart phones has grown exponentially. But Apple (AAPL), Google, and Palm (HPQ) have taken very different approaches to the developer community.
This latest move from Google falls in line with the company’s more open approach to Android app development and access to the Android Market.
According to Google, which announced the general public release of the tool in a blog post today, the App Inventor has been tested in classrooms around the country to prove that a computer science background is no longer required to develop applications for mobile. But first, users must fill out an online form to gain access App Inventor.
Here’s a video Google posted on YouTube to highlight the simplicity of the new tool:
Google gives wannabe app developers a new tool
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