Google is today launching a new tool called App Inventor that will enable non developers create apps for Android phones.

The App Inventor team has created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing “programming-like” stuff – blocks to store information, blocks for repeating actions, and blocks to perform actions under certain conditions. There are even blocks to talk to services like Twitter.

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In a bid to expand its powerful Web brand in the booming mobile arena, Google is expected to launch its own smartphone, the Nexus One, on Tuesday, 5th January 2010.

The Internet search and advertising giant has already gained a foothold in the market with its Android mobile operating system, featured in a number of phones starting with T-Mobile’s G1 in October 2008 and more recently with the Droid from Motorola.

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