Today’s technology is ruled by a handful of technology empires which were built for various reasons. Some like to believe that these tech giants emerges out of the necessity of evolving from a technological perspective, offering mankind a way to advance, one step at a time. Google is a tech entity that has built its name on facilitating the way others interact with tech, even from its early days when it was nothing more than a search engine. Giving people a tool that powerful was only the start, as many years later, Google is still coming up with new and innovative ways to facilitate our transition into the next phase, which this time around is represented by the rise of the mobile industry.
Introducing Google App Maker
App Maker is the latest addition to Google’s drawer of goodies, and as it takes its place among all the other helpful tools and services provided by its developer, we’ll take some time to see what the purpose of App Maker is in fact.
The simplest way to describe App Maker would be to call it an opportunity for enterprises everywhere to create internal mobile apps. With this service, Google is encouraging enterprises to create internal applications that can serve and fulfill various company tasks. The seller here is that App Maker can help you develop your own app at a really fast pace, without needing to employ or assign a mobile app developer to handle it as they would take on a full-blown developing project from scratch.
How App Maker thrives through its simplicity?
The best thing about App Maker must be, hands down, how simple it is. Google’s new tool literally comes with a drag and drop mechanic which allows you to easily move things around and design your app in the most minimalistic way possible.
It is not just a kid’s toy however, as it comes packed with features that make sure developers will have as easy a job as possible. Things like customized script support, scripting editor and a cloud platform to work with give developers all the coding support they need, although App Maker requires minimal coding.
Who can App Maker help?
If we are to believe what Google says about App Maker (and why shouldn’t we?), the service is meant to help businesses of all sizes which are either struggling to find an anchoring point into the mobile scene or are too inexperienced to know where to start in creating an app.
App Maker is for both smaller, entry-level businesses, as well as top dog corporations. No matter how big or small a business is, their profile or history might have led them to a point where they do not have the necessary IT department or programming skills to conduct a full-blown mobile app development process. For cases like this, Google banks on the success of App Maker, which makes app development a walk in the park, and also highly accessible. The app completely removes lack of experience or even highly talented IT personnel getting in the way of a business joining the mobile phenomenon where mobile devices and mobile apps are gradually taking over in both popularity and applicative functionality.
How to integrate and adapt to App Maker?
Since we’re talking about introducing a completely new concept to an enterprise with theoretically no backing information on the matter, it would be quite redundant to have App Maker require resources that were never available or a concern for said environment.
Those who choose to use App Maker do not have to fear about integrating App Maker into their regular mobile workflow, especially if they were already working with Google services. App Maker comes with full support and integration for all other Google products and services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Translate, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Contacts, and even the more obscure ones such as Google BigQuery. Google lets developers integrate all these services into apps created with their new tool, maintaining a balanced ecosystem and familiar flow. Developers using App Maker also get to work with Google’s Material Design architecture and give apps a very Google-centric approach.
Apps made with the new Google tool will use the new Google Drive Tables, which is a cloud-base service that stores data from said App Maker creations, thus providing a “playing field” for newly created apps. This means that developers won’t have to set up a platform for the enterprise apps they create, as they can use Google’s own work suite of services to create, maintain and store the apps.
Conclusion
In retrospective, Google’s App Maker has a ton of productive qualities that no doubt facilitate the creation of apps big time. The importance of reaching out trough a mobile medium in this day and age is massive, and having the possibility to adjust while skipping some otherwise crucial requirements and getting straight to the productive part is invaluable.
