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Now you can create your own Android applications for the Smart Phones like Samsung, Nokia and so on.

Always dreamed of a specific Smart Phone application? Make it yourself, as well!

How-to do that is easier than ever….

July 12th 2010Google unveiled a developer tool that allows anyone who wants to create aplications for Smart cell phones using the Android operating system. You do not need to know the programming language Android developers usually use.

The application program for you, all you do is decide what you want the program to do. It reminds a bit to building with Lego, since the program create building blocks,  block by block. Each block represents a snippet of a programming code, and the whole set of blocks together will eventually be able to run as an application on the Android Operating System based cell phones.

The beta version of Google App Inventor for Android was released July 12th 2010 along with a video showing people how easy it is to create applications with it. In the video a cat owner makes by a few mouse clicks a program that says mjau when people tap a photo of a  cat.

- To use the App Inventor you do not need to be a software developer. App Inventor requires no programming knowledge, it states on their website.

Localization and automatic text messages

The Cat program is not particularly difficult to make for those who dare to try, you will probably spend more time on building a medium sized Lego boat after a recipe. The program is however not in itself especially advanced in functionality either – and perhaps not particularly useful. They who wants to will of course advance to create more advanced applications than  cat pictures making a mjau.

Google has also posted on the web site a recipe on how to go about making the game called  “Whack-a-Mole, where the goal is to hit the moles that continually pop up different places on the screen. Another specific recipe allows you to create a quiz application, you can challenge your friends with.

Among other suggestions of applications one can make, there are applications that leverage the GPS functionality for localizing – for example, a program used to mark where you parked your car, or programs that automatically respond to incoming text messages – for example, a program that says “Calling you later . “I am driving” in forefront of your drive.

The idea of programming with Lego-like building blocks derived from research done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The motive is really education, and search engine giant hopes enough so that the teachers will use it in their teaching.

Blocks for the most

Google has added building blocks for almost everything you can do with Android operating System.
This includs blocks to make programlike things, like blocks to store information, blocks to repeat actions and blocks to make certain actions under certain conditions. There are even blocks that can talk to services like Twitter.

Maybe you will initiate a program project during the summer months, then you must first fill out a form on their website. Google will continually give people access to the App Inventor during the coming weeks.

In the fall 2010, Google hopes to have ready an Android emulator, which allows you to test the program to create an ongoing basis on the computer screen instead of having to transfer it to your phone.

Best of luck, you might have the idea to the next blockbuster of application for the Smart Phones in the market today.

Try it for yourself – apply to be the next successful Android developer on GOOGLE web site

Open Blocks Java Library for creating visual blocks programming can be found here