Android programming

[Dave A]

If at first you don't succeed, try and try again

[twinscythe12332]

I just got the email now... google's appinventor is going to be closing down. grab your projects as quick as you can. It may or may not open somewhere else.

apologies for the crappy sizing. Here's the text:


As we announced on the App Inventor Announcement Forum, Google will end support for App Inventor on December 31, 2011, after which data in appinventorbeta.com will not be accessible and will be deleted from Google servers. You can preserve your App Inventor projects by simply clicking on the Download All Projects button on your My Projects page. This will download to your computer a zipped archive of all your projects. We recommend you retrieve your projects well before December 31st.


In early 2012 Google will also be making the complete App Inventor source code publicly available under an open source license, so that anyone can study the code and modify it as they desire.

In order to ensure the future success of App Inventor, Google has funded the establishment of a Center for Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab. Sometime in the first quarter of 2012, the Center plans to provide an App Inventor service for general public access, similar to the one Google is currently running.

In order for you to continue working with your projects in an open source instance (MIT or otherwise) of App Inventor you will need to download your data from appinventorbeta.com before December 31st and later upload them to an open source instance as it becomes available.

Please visit the App Inventor user forums to get future updates on App Inventor. You can also visit http://mobilelearning.mit.edu/ for updates on what is being done with App Inventor at MIT.

The App Inventor Team

[tec0]

This is truly crappy news, I just got the damn emulator to work today... Now all those downloads will account for nothing...

Well Google just won the “YOU SUCK” award for 2011

[Dave A]

No indication why Google is shutting it down?

[twinscythe12332]

app inventor beta announcements forum

app inventor announcement they linked to

[Dave A]

So they're winding down Google Labs then.

Pity. Although fortunately it seems the app project isn't lost entirely - just changing curatorship

[twinscythe12332]

pretty much. It's changing, but without certainty. That's the slightly worrying part.

[nico42]

Thank you adrianh! I am begining in Android programming and it's complicated!

[adrianh]

Ah, I have completed my firts Android app. It works well except for the fact that I needs to adapt to different screen sizes. Android devices have screens ranging from weeeny size to 10'1" which sure complicates matters. My app sits in the top left corner of the tablet and looks really awkward. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to scale the screen so its going to be a slog.