Kodular

Free Android app tool with shocking depth
Type:
Overall Rating:
End User:
Individual
Learning Curve:
Hard
Starting Price /mo:
4
Usable Free Tier:
Yes
No
Review Date:
17 Apr 26
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Review:

An extremely interesting tool for Android app development.

It's got a companion testing app, and you can download your APK files from the editor directly.

It's paid plan, if you need more space or more projects, is incredibly cheap at about $4 per month.

The UI is unfortunately a big hectic. It has WAY more functional options than a typical app builder, which is exciting, but it does look hard to work with.

The logic is via MIT's open source App Inventor, which is definitely more complex than a lot of other tools out there.

But if you were at all familiar with Android app development already, this could be a really powerful prototyping tool.

For god's sake, you can interface with USB devices, Arduino boards, and programmable LEGO blocks!

Very cool stuff. You never see that kind of thing.

I'll dig into this later if I learn the App Inventor format a bit better.

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