Software Testing Tools Blog – Testertools

Things seem to be hotting up for android smartphone users.

Google is the latest to bring out a software tool for the Android phone app. The free software, which is intended to make it easier for people to write applications has been under development for a year.

User testing has been done mainly in schools with groups that included sixth graders, high school girls, nursing students and university undergraduates who are not computer science majors.

Screen shot of Googles android app in action.

The App Inventor team has created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing “programming-like” stuff– blocks to store information, blocks for repeating actions, and blocks to perform actions under certain conditions. There are even blocks to talk to services like Twitter.

For more detailed information on this excellent Google App Inventor for Android which is free to download click here http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/.