App Inventor for Android

Have a killer app idea for smartphones but just don't know how to write one? App Inventor for Android is here to end your woes! Using graphical programming-like blocks, you can create your own apps for Android without knowing how to do programming. It's basically a visual design tool for Android apps.

Google has come out with blocks for just about everything that you can do with an Android phone - from GPS to Twitter. Combine them according to your imagination and you might just hit it off with a killer app. This is probably Google's attempt to wrestle the smartphone app market share from Apple. Having such a simplified way of creating apps would certainly spur more people to develop apps for Android. Even kids should be able to figure out to write an Android app with the App Inventor. Once they get familiarized with Android, that may very well be their platform of choice in the future...

See the Android App Inventor in action..

To get started go to http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/

How successful do you think Google will be at using this strategy?