From a learning Android app development in the classroom perspective it’s the visual language block based code which makes the tool accessible to the school environment: the teacher doesn’t have to be a software engineer to use App Inventor 2 as a teaching aid.
Like Blockly and Scratch it’s really easy to use: relative to learning to program in Java, Javascript etc…
Simply drag n drop code blocks to build an android app.
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