I am starting to test out AIDE, the Android Dev environment you can run right on your Android Devices…

I am starting to test out AIDE, the Android Dev environment you can run right on your Android Devices. It took Apples insanely ungreat gatekeeper clenched cheeks to make folks realise how nice it is to have a platform that allows you to do what you want how you want to do it….not how some CEO decides you should. I have been playing around with App Inventor for a bit and while I love using it there are definite ceilings you hit if you want to go down in the API. One of the projects I have been wanting to do up for a while mucks with SSIDs and other networking bits, so I grabbed some code example to see how easy it would be to open examples, test them, alter them, and then start using what I learn for my own needs. The first run at this was spot on…. everything complied, installed and ran zoom zip. I edited things to make an error appear…hey we got errors. Once fixed and altered I ran the moded code and once again it all just worked. No gatekeeper telling me I could not run my own apps on my own devices, just a clear open path from idea to app. Thanks AIDE and Android.