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Free Android App maker

8 points by suprgeek 16y ago

zrgiu 16y ago
while I like the general flow and the resulted applications, I think this is just one more tool to add lots of low-quality content apps to the Android Market, already full with useless stuff. There are at least a dozen of similar services available right now (mostly paid though) doing that.
- philjackson 16y ago
  If you click right through this one is a paid service too, really. While you can put a "free" app out there it's "not guaranteed" to be owned by you and they'll make ad. revenue from it. Useless.
  - zrgiu 16y ago
    yes, I saw that. But adding a "free" option will generate loads of free crap apps, and only very few will actually pay for the service. Check out the AppLoop case, which was the first service of this kind, but for the iphone: http://gigaom.com/apple/apploop-iphone-app-generator/ http://gigaom.com/apple/apploop-iphone-app-generator/ . I remember they had over 400 submissions in the first hours, and while they were shut down by Apple shortly it shows a good estimation of the kind of result this could have.
yaix 16y ago
It basically says "give us your idea for an app, so that we can code it and then put our own ad code in there." Great way to get ideas from the crowd for free.
mckoss 16y ago
Anyone tried Google's Android app maker? http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
- navan 16y ago
  It was pretty good for simple apps. But you cannot upload the apps created to Android market.
markszcz 16y ago
As zrgui said (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242098 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242098) that these sites add " low-quality content apps " into the market but something simple like this does serve its purpose, in my opinion, for the younger, growing up, geek generation. Looking back at how I got interested in programming, something like this probably would have sparked my interest in mobile development by jump starting my baby steps in creating "my own app", ragardless of how simple the app might be.

8 points by suprgeek 16y ago

zrgiu 16y ago

while I like the general flow and the resulted applications, I think this is just one more tool to add lots of low-quality content apps to the Android Market, already full with useless stuff. There are at least a dozen of similar services available right now (mostly paid though) doing that.

philjackson 16y ago
If you click right through this one is a paid service too, really. While you can put a "free" app out there it's "not guaranteed" to be owned by you and they'll make ad. revenue from it. Useless.
- zrgiu 16y ago
  yes, I saw that. But adding a "free" option will generate loads of free crap apps, and only very few will actually pay for the service. Check out the AppLoop case, which was the first service of this kind, but for the iphone: http://gigaom.com/apple/apploop-iphone-app-generator/ http://gigaom.com/apple/apploop-iphone-app-generator/ . I remember they had over 400 submissions in the first hours, and while they were shut down by Apple shortly it shows a good estimation of the kind of result this could have.

yaix 16y ago

It basically says "give us your idea for an app, so that we can code it and then put our own ad code in there." Great way to get ideas from the crowd for free.

mckoss 16y ago

Anyone tried Google's Android app maker? http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

navan 16y ago
It was pretty good for simple apps. But you cannot upload the apps created to Android market.

markszcz 16y ago

As zrgui said (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242098 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242098) that these sites add " low-quality content apps " into the market but something simple like this does serve its purpose, in my opinion, for the younger, growing up, geek generation. Looking back at how I got interested in programming, something like this probably would have sparked my interest in mobile development by jump starting my baby steps in creating "my own app", ragardless of how simple the app might be.