Last year I began dabbling in Android programming. Just for fun and only as time permitted so....not a lot. I did manage to find time enough to run across Basic4Android (B4A), a visual IDE and language similar to VB.Net. Though not overly advanced, B4A was inexpensive to get into and much easier to set up and churn out a first app than Android Java + Eclipse.
This week B4A took a big step forward by adding support for classes and, therefore, objects -- the fundamental requirement for object oriented programming (OOP). Suddenly B4A is looking a lot more attractive for serious app development...
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June 21, 2012
June 7, 2011
Android programming with Basic4Android
Moving along from my initial foray into creating Android apps with Google's nifty but somewhat impractical AppInventor, I sought out other free (or nearly free) products that boasted a visual designer. Enter "Basic4Android", an IDE built using LUA to abstract the underlying Android JAVA classes and present a language very similar to Visual Basic...
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