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Google have just introduced a toolkit which makes it easy for newbies to computer programming to make their own apps. App Inventor for Android allows you to build just about any app you can imagine with a minimum of prior knowledge of code.

Instead of requiring written code, App Inventor allows you to design applications using a block-like graphical system. The App Inventor authors have created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing “logic-based programmy” stuff, for instance, blocks that store information, repeat actions, or those that perform actions under certain conditions.

See the below video for a run-through:

If you’ve been looking at Samsung Galaxy S deals but haven’t seen the apps yet that you really want, programs like App Builder make it possible to go home and just make your own! Fantastic.

Google has just updated their Google Goggles application with the addition of a new feature – text translation. To translate text, just photograph the text you want translated with your Android smartphone’s camera, then the app translates the text into English.

Google Googles is available exclusively on Android devices and with no details on whether Google plans to roll this application out to other platforms, this is another solid reason why you’ll be patting yourself on the back if you opt for Android handset.

The service currently supports a number of languages including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. However, Google intends to expand this even further.

So, if you’re linguistically challenged and headed for a European break this summer – make sure you snap up the latest version of Google Googles!

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Twitter has announced that it is working on an official Android app.

The news came from CEO Evan Williams, who told the audience of the Twitter Chirp conference that Google’s open source-operating system would soon get its own fully native app for the microblogging sensation.

Last week, Twitter acquired Tweetie for the Apple iPhone, and also teamed up with RIM to build an offical app for their Blackberry range.

The new Android Twitter app will face some stuff competition from existing third-party client applications like Seesmic or Twit Droid, but bearing the ‘official’ tag could well prove a big selling point.

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The Orange Wednesdays app has been around for the iPhone for some time but now it comes to Android too! With Orange Wednesdays you get 2 for 1 cinema vouchers, so this app will tell you what pictures are showing near you, allow you to read reviews, watch trailers and locate more cinemas.

The app will also let you share to a friend all the details of the movie, directly from the app.

To get it, head to the Android Market and search for “Orange Wednesdays”.
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