Alan, thanks for the interesting post.
I have had a chance to play with App Inventor, and I wasn't
impressed. Like a lot of Google's early products, it felt very
incomplete (the fact that my phone had to be plugged into the
computer, to even use the app for instance). Also, insuring the
various
If it will ever be finished it falls into the category of RAD tools I would say.
There have been times when there was a good market for those tools and
I used Magic II for many years with a high productivity.
But IMHO those times are gone, because
a) Flexibility in general is not given in the
Exactly what I feel. You will need 3 components launched to develop
1. App inventor
2. block editor
3. Emulator.
the webstart tool is a hack job, and I could argue, why don't you do
the whole thing in webstart. Google might phase out the webstart
later.
Using the puzzle style to glue events
