The Android team over at Google has made this almost inconceivable thing possible for its users with the Android App Inventor.

With this straightforward yet powerful programme, the user can, in principle, produce complex apps with the App Inventor. What makes this more interesting is that in order to create these apps, it is not required that the user has computer programing background knowledge. This is what makes the App Inventor user-friendly, unique and attractive.

How this can be done is via a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor . What the user needs to do is to visually design how he or she wants the app to look like and then all that is needed next is to set up the desired functionality of the app by using blocks. And this is the area where Google has done something very smart and impressive to help with the backend part of app development. Rather than showing the user lines after lines of computer codes, it concentrates on arranging everything that is needed in the making of the app into blocks, thus making the actual codes transparent to the user.

With the App Inventor, the user can gain access to areas like that of communication, location awareness, social networking and massive Web based information collections.

Currently, the App Inventor is in Beta and accepting sign ups for the testing of the program .

The first thought that comes to my head when I see this program is : A Dreamweaver for Apps development? It will not be too far off to say that Dreamweaver revolutionises HTML and website coding by making HTML more accessible and friendly to non-programmers and computer programmers alike. Can the App Inventor does the same for apps development? Only time will tell.