AppScale Delivers App Inventor Appliance for Private Cloud Deployment
July 19, 2013
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Darryl K. Taft.
AppScale Systems has announced the release of the App Inventor Cloud Appliance, which the company refers to as private cloud in a box. The makers of the AppScale Cloud Platform, an open source runtime system for web applications and mobile application back-ends, announced the appliance at the App Inventor Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“App Inventoris designed to make Android app development accessible to everyone,” said Hal Abelson, professor of computer science at MIT and creator of the App Inventor Project at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning, in a statement. “Combined with the AppScale appliance, even those who do not have reliable access to the Internet can become mobile developers using state-of-the-art cloud technology.”…
App Inventor is a popular web application that simplifies the process of creating and deploying Android apps for novice and expert developers alike. Instead of writing code, developers combine graphical blocks via a drag-and-drop interface to construct mobile apps that App Inventor automatically deploys to Android devices. App Inventor is a widely used technology targeting developers at all skill levels. It is also heavily used by educators around the world to bring mobile computing technologies and software innovation to a new generation of aspiring developers of all ages…
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