Thread
:
Everyone is a developer with Android App Inventor
View Single Post
ndi
2010-07-12 , 17:45
Posts: 2,050 | Thanked: 1,425 times | Joined on Dec 2009 @ Bucharest
#
14
This has been done before, multiple times, and has gone two ways:
* the no-typing way (done by Microsoft, and way better): Dead before it hit the ground. Works well for hello world, meow, but on the next step it's way faster by keyboard, and before the first 2 days you feel like the whole graphical thing is holding back. If you spend 4 weeks doing an app that can be summed to 10 lines you're doing it wrong.
* the start easy-then-type (done by everyone, it's called a RAD Tool). Works great to speed up the repetitive task of adding buttons, arranging, assigning components. Once these are done, you F12 back to the editor and type like there's no tomorrow. Point being, you have to code, there is no help there.
Either way, all it did was raise absolutely-zero level to can-make-an-app-that-meows, by teaching you nothing. The curve hasn't changed, if you want to write an app you still need to learn to code.
Besides, all it did is ensure there are going to be a shovel-load of stupid, do-nothing, click to make funny sound apps. It will look good in 5 months when Android has 1 million apps. It's just that 950.000 can be replaced by 4 lines of code.
I still hold hope, though. Embarcadero is reviving Kylix code and, with just a bit of luck, it could come to ARM.
__________________
N900 dead and Nokia no longer replaces them. Thanks for all the fish.
Keep the forums clean: use "Thanks" button instead of the thank you post.
Quote & Reply
|
ndi
View Public Profile
Find all posts by ndi