Google provides tools for software developers kit (SDK) in the form of Inventor App for Android to make it easier for software developers to create applications for devices based on Android operating system. This SDK equipment has been tested extensively by a group of developers ‘amateurs’ are not so expert in computers, including school children and students. Google says, the goal of launching this SDK tool is the ease that lets anyone create applications for their phones. Google realized, it is only possible with the platforms ‘open’.
“The goal is to enable every person in the mobile world this could be a creator, not just being a consumer,” said computer scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harold Abelson who has tried this SDK tools.
Abelson added, he was very sure, this kind of project will support the rapid growth in mobile applications.
Users who want to register the program for the Android Google App Inventor must first have a Gmail email account and Android based phones. The reason this web-based tools so that users are required to connect their phones to a computer using a USB cable. So far, more than 100 thousand open applications developed for the Google Android platform. In Indonesia, Android enthusiasts is also growing. One of them joined in the community mailing list en-Android.