Weekly Reflection

This week in computer science we started on app inventor. App inventor is a free tool developed by Google with a very simple interface similar to Scratch. You drag and drop components you want and then launch a blocks editor, which can then assign functions to the components. You can run your app on a virtual emulation of the Android OS, or you can run it on an actual Android phone if you want to. This software is available to everyone who has a Google account. I also like what Google did by coding the blocks editor in Java, making it compatible with every major operating system (Mac, PC, Linux).