July 17, 2011, 4:33 pm - James Farrer
Google has released a Beta Android App building tool. I've only played with it for a little while but as near as I can tell it is an amazingly simple visual way to develop. It's a hybrid web/client program that allows for dragging and dropping of components and some basic manipulation. I've been wondering if someone would come up with something like this for programming in general. This might be the springboard into a much larger pool of developers in the world. This makes me wonder what this will change when almost anyone can "code" up a program.
Here's the URL: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/
I'll be playing with this and looking to see what kind of future enhancements they add into it.