Create your first Android App, You donot need to be a programmer for that!Google Labs comes up with another invention & this one I bet you is gonna be a super hit!Google App Inventor (Beta) is an Android app maker which lets you create your own Android apps & that too on a browser, and best thing about it is that you donot need to bea programmer for that!So lets get started Computer requirements 1. You need to have java 6 installed on your computer. You can download the latest jdk from link1 2.Install the App Inventor Setup a) For Windows users you can download it from link2 b) After the installation of app inventor it may ask for the location of the software, if it does so then specify it as C:\Program Files\Appinventor\commands-for-Appinventor because this is where the adb.exe file is located. 3. Once you are done with this please login using your google account to appinventor.googlelabs.com. Click on My Projects and now you are ready to create your first app. Building my first App Click on New, Give a name to your project. Oki Lets name it MyHome. MyHome:- Its a simple app in which you have pics of your family member,when you click on the pic a call is established to the family member. Step1: So first you decide what your screen should look like. For that we will be using Labels & Buttons. On the left hand side of your browser you have Basic List From that select the Components Button and drag & drop it on to the screen. Next add a Label to the screen. Step2: In my MyHome App I have included four buttons for 4 family members & a label for each of them. Step3: Set the Label text properties to the text of of your choice. Label1: Mother Label2:Father Label3:Brother Label4:Sister Step 4: Your screen should look like this now. Once done with this,the next step is to set the properties of the Button.Clear the text properties of the button. To set the Image Properties: Click on Image on the Properties box and upload the image of your choice. Your screen should look like this now Step 5: You need to establish a call when you click on the pic for that you need to add the phone component. The Phone component is available in the Social Tab of the Pallete. Choose the Phone Call Component and drop down it to the Screen. We have four members & so we will be using four phone call components. Step6: Set the Phone Call Properties. Enter the phone nos in each of the phone call component with the nos of the corresponding members. So this ends up the Design of your App. Now the next step is to build the Application Logic. On your browser click on the Open Block Editor Button. A file will be downloaded(AppInventorForAndroidCodeblocks.jnlp)Double Click on the file and wait till the Block Editor opens, it may take sometime though around 30-50 secs.Once the block editor is open the next step is to connect it witha device.If you are using a emulator click on New Emulator& select a emulator.Now click on Connect to the Device button & wait till the device is connected. Step 7. Select Button1 on My Blocks Editor. From the list of options select the Onclick block Step 8 Select Phone Call on My Blocks Editor Form the list of options select the MakePhoneCall Block Repeat this step for each of the buttons. So finally you are done with the application logic & you can download it to your Android Phone or computer to use. If you want to emulate it in an emulator then you will have to install it on your computer. Download the app you have created:- For that next to the Open Block Editor Button you have one more button that gives to the option of downloading it to the computer. For trying your app on a emulator: 1. Download the app and place the app in the folder C:\Program Files\Appinventor\commands-for-Appinventor 2. Open the cmd prompt on your computer. Make the root directory of cmd prompt as cd C:\Program Files\Appinventor\commands-for-Appinventor 3. Install the apk file my running the command adb install MyHome.apk So you have finally installed the apk file & now you can view your working MyHome app on your emulator!!!!!! For detailed graphical representation of this article please visit my blog at http://googlelatiude.blogspot.com/2011/03/create-your-first-android-app-you-donot.html If you still have any problems creating your first app, please do write.Thanks,Vaishakhlink1: [http://www.java.comlink2:] http://dl.google.com/dl/appinventor/installers/windows/appinventor_setup_installer_v_1_1.exe