*cough*
Google's App Inventer was never able to really build true applications anyway (the apps can't be submitted to the Android Marketplace and distributed in any way). Plus, there are better alternatives (available right now) for teaching development and easy app creation for Android, iOS, web and plenty more...
Illumination Software Creator - http://radicalbreeze.com/
True, developing for iOS still requires a financial investment.
That said...
Illumination Software Creator -does- allow someone to build an Android app. Then, when they feel like it'll be financially rewarding to them, hit a button and have a full XCode project auto-magically generated and ready to build. Same goes for Python/GTK apps and Flash web apps. (And, soon, HTML5, WP7 and WebOS).
There's always Illumination Software Creator. Fully visual app development.
And it supports not just Android... but iOS, Flash and more.
http://radicalbreeze.com/
Or... you could do something similar with Illumination and generate Flash, iPhone, iPad, Android and Python applications.
http://www.radicalbreeze.com/
This is one of many reasons why tools like Illumination Software Creator are so important. If you have a high level language (in that case a fully visual one) that generates native code for any given platform (Java + Android API for Android apps, etc.) then whenever a company decides to sue someone for using an API/Language/etc it becomes easy to jump to another platform (or another api/language on the same platform) from the same project files.
There are two versions of the show:
The Audio Version : Edited properly with an ear towards quality.
The Video Version : This is more of a "behind the scenes" video. Lots of fun. But not edited.
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*cough* Google's App Inventer was never able to really build true applications anyway (the apps can't be submitted to the Android Marketplace and distributed in any way). Plus, there are better alternatives (available right now) for teaching development and easy app creation for Android, iOS, web and plenty more... Illumination Software Creator - http://radicalbreeze.com/
True, developing for iOS still requires a financial investment. That said... Illumination Software Creator -does- allow someone to build an Android app. Then, when they feel like it'll be financially rewarding to them, hit a button and have a full XCode project auto-magically generated and ready to build. Same goes for Python/GTK apps and Flash web apps. (And, soon, HTML5, WP7 and WebOS).
There's always Illumination Software Creator. Fully visual app development. And it supports not just Android... but iOS, Flash and more. http://radicalbreeze.com/
Or... you could do something similar with Illumination and generate Flash, iPhone, iPad, Android and Python applications. http://www.radicalbreeze.com/
This is one of many reasons why tools like Illumination Software Creator are so important. If you have a high level language (in that case a fully visual one) that generates native code for any given platform (Java + Android API for Android apps, etc.) then whenever a company decides to sue someone for using an API/Language/etc it becomes easy to jump to another platform (or another api/language on the same platform) from the same project files.
There are two versions of the show: The Audio Version : Edited properly with an ear towards quality. The Video Version : This is more of a "behind the scenes" video. Lots of fun. But not edited.