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German Heise Verlag reviewed Google App Inventor in their most recent issue of c’t. Main points:

- Far too complicated
- Bad user interface of IDE
- Requires enourmous amounts of clicks during development
- Artificial  separation between GUI designer and code blocks
- Does not compile down to JVM code

Conclusion: Don’t even give Google App Inventor a try! Writing code using a text-based approach is much more straight forward.

PS: Don’t mix these results. For kids, Scratch – the system which inspired Google App Inventor – is really great.

PPS: Still interested? Have a look at these movies:. AndroidAndMe.com shows how to build a twitter client by means of a two movies mini series. The demo is nice – but very simple.