Creating Android apps from text is now a real thing


The Text2App program allows you to create Android apps from text. — AFP Relaxnews

Researchers have developed a framework capable of creating Android applications from textual descriptions. Could it be a game-changer when it comes to app creation?

In some ways it’s nothing short of a mini revolution. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have succeeded in developing a framework that can create an application on Android from text. They trained a translation model to generate representations in an intermediate language they created.

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