Your Cell Phone Apps Finally Come Of Age

When smart phones first became available, among the things that sold them to the general public was the fact that they could readily be made more feature rich by cell phone apps. And what is meant by an app?

Well, app is simply shorthand for application, but for your smart cell phone, what apps really mean is cell phone customization. They allow you to make your phone as useful a part of your life as you want, in ways far beyond merely making phone calls. Loading your phone with applications enriches it, making it do things that your phone service provider wouldn’t dream of.

Up until the last few years applications were loaded onto your phone by connecting to a PC and then the internet, or directly from the internet. The phone company held a store of approved apps online. Thee were in turn programmed by phone developers, often third parties.

What changed things drastically is the arrival of Android, Google’s new operating system. This has a nifty little feature that changes the game completely – it allows you to become an app designer. You don’t have to put up with how some developer thinks your application should work – you design it, it works how you want.

The tool you use is called App Inventor, and using it is nowhere near as complicated as you may think. Google have been clever in how they get this to work on Android based phones, because ease of use was the first consideration. App development is a simple, intuitive process of building the pieces of your phone’s functionality into a new application that you want. Here and now.

So what would you want to put into your new app? Maybe you need to reverse that- what couldn’t you put in? Because all of the advanced features of a smart phone have been made available. So you can use camera and video, GPS functionality, motion sensors, speech to text units in building your dream application.

It won’t be long before Microsoft, with Win Mo, Blackberry and Apple will endowing their smart with the game changing ability to make cell phone apps.

If you have a favorite or useful cell phone app, you are most likely anxious to share it with friends and family members. Individuals share and trade cell phone applications for best use of the devices.