Sketchware Review – Create Android Apps On Your Smartphone

In the era of smartphones, it has become essential that you must have an application for your business or organisation apart from the website. Creating applications on Android Studio takes little bit of time and effort. When you are beginner it may take more time. But there are number of websites and tools on the internet to create android apps on your smartphone in no time. In those tools, there is one Sketchware. In this sketchware review I have compiled the results considering some pros and cons.

Why choose Sketchware

Pros

• It is free to use
• No watermark or self-promotion
• Easy To Use
• No programming experience needed
• Visual Drag & Drop Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Availability of learning material
• Block helper
• Quick test of application on smartphone
• Upload on play store
• Other Features

Sketchware is a free-to-use application like Android studio software for PC. However, the difference exists in flexibility and approach. There is no watermark kind of thing that occurs unlike in other websites that contend to make free applications. Using sketchware is like a game for children. There is nothing you need to worry about. You just need to learn the skill of using the right boxes to make sense. As you don’t need to bother about writing the code for your activity. You can import images as well. There are availability of icons as well.

Let me explain to you with screenshots.

When you first open the application you will see a Getting Started Dialogue box. Closing the box will find a floating action button in the bottom right corner to add a new project. After clicking the new project, you will see a new window where you can name your application and set an App icon which will be displayed when you run the applications. Apart from this, you can change the package name and version.

When you fill up and set everything hit save. Now you will find the activity there in the screenshot below. The view tab will indicate your layout and the logic tab will indicate the functions. In other words, you need to arrange the widgets in the view tab and set their behavior in the logic tab.

If you are already a developer you will hardly find any issue using the application. But for those who are new to Android development, there is a Tutorial section in the application where you can learn everything. You can know about the Intent, SoundPool/MediaPlayer. In tutorials, you do not need to read the text and apply yourself. Instead, it will be like live practice.

Apart from learning widgets and basic material, there is a block helper to help you use suitable blocks in the appropriate places.

Block helper activity will be having two tabs – Define Blocks & Invalid Blocks. This will help you to better understand the applicability of each block. Wherever you find any error you can get quick help from Block Helper.

Once you are satisfied with your project you can upload it to the Google Play store provided you are having a developer account.

Cons

• Advanced tutorials are not free
• Not for professional designing
• For small applications

Though the application is free to use. But if someone wants to learn from the app, he/she will have to spend some money on advanced tutorials where basic tutorials are free. There is no denying the fact that the productivity that a computer provides can not be replaced with mobiles easily. Following this, the application can not provide the accuracy and functions that one can use in Android Studio Open Source Software. However, you can use it for creating small applications on a go and experiment with things.

Sketchware Review

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