Flowcode for Developing Android Apps

[Chet]

Coming soon I hope. Google's App Inventor seems to be lacking the intutive format that Flowcode provides. App Inventor is also very limited in phone I/O control. I think Flowcode for Android Apps would be a winner. I believe App Inventor has been sidelined by Google, so this is a good time to step in to fill the void for a quality "code-less" Android development platform. Maybe just a front end for Eclipse is all it takes. Cheers.

[Benj]

Hello,

This is something I am currently looking into for a personal project though not on a microcontroller platform. Microchip have also announced they will be creating boards and code for android so maybe somewhere down the line we could integrate some of this into Flowcode.

[Harry Tuttle]

I was thinking that an Android remote control app could be used to control via a bluetooth E-Block.
Also I just chanced across this Sparkfun IOIO but the programming looks like hard work.
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10585

[Chet]

Glad to hear there's a possible future for Android programming VIA Flowcode. I think the market could be huge. You should look at App Inventor and see how Flowcode could be so much better.

[benp]

The chip on the sparkfun ioio is in the flowcode for dspic list:PIC24FJ256DA206
It should be possible to programm it with flowcode for dspic and a pickit3.

Do you think it is possible to import the ioio code in a C code block in Flowcode.
This would be an easy way to give more functionnality to the ioio with very simple programs.

We could imagine a ioio component in flowcode in the future.

Another way to use android is the wifi EB069 E-Block and the android wifi.
A very simple example is here:
http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/mmforum ... 781#p30781
More complex projects here:
http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/mmforum ... 106#p29031