Is Basic4Android worth it?

[barx]

This is for anybody that is searching the forum to see if B4A is worth the purchase price. It was only a couple of weeks ago I was in the same boat. I decided to take the plunge and let me tell you, it's well worth it. The IDE is brilliant and the support is brilliant and rapid too. I'm loving it and hope Erel and anybody else who helps out keeps up the good work.

[XverhelstX]

Basic4android is one of the best tools to play with and to make amazing android apps. Even for young beginners as for advanced experts. Great and quick support, documentation is now becoming amazing thanks to the wiki, Klaus' beginners guide, B4a helpviewer, the new search 'engine' and the online documentation. Really easy to make apps with, comes with a visual designer AND no xml writing required at all!, worth the price and a lot of additional libraries completes it. I have now made 2 apps so far and made around 85 euros with it.

Sincerely,
Tomas

[Erel]

[barx]

Well if I manage to make a few quid with my apps, I'll also be looking at donating a bit back here too. I like to support were I can.

Sent from my Desire Z

[psciga]

Yes it is. After 2 days playing with b4a I got my first result. A small "app" to make a photograph and load it up to my homepage. I'm not a programmer, have only a little knowlage in VBA. But with help of great doc (thanks for german docs, forum and examples) I found the way to do it.
Regards - Peter - and sorry for bad english, I'm from saxonia ;-)

[Jim Brown]

For a development package to be "worth it" in my book 4 key areas need to be covered:

1. Features
2. Stability
3. Support from the developer
4. Free Bugatti Veyron or Ariel Atom V8

Basic4Android covers the first 3 in spades. Two thumbs up from me.
Now I await number 4(!)

Seriously .. Yes. b4a is well worth the price. It is excellent. Even more so now it has a great debugger

[JOTHA]

All is said: It is worth every cent!
Respect for that great work on the IDE and all the really assiduously hardworking helpers in the forum.

I hope I can give some support to newbies back!

THANK YOU.

[timwil]

Actually not worth every cent!

Worth a whole lot more!!!!!!!!!

Very, very nice.

[kickaha]

The support on the forum alone is worth what you pay for it!

All questions answered promptly and accurately, and any bugs are soon sorted by Erel.

[mistermentality]

B4A is worth a lot more than what what is charged for it, and as others have said the support is excellent.

I have memory problems especially getting my mind around new ideas and despite only having previous experience with old school basic (from the speccy and Amiga days) it has helped me to write and publish my own android apps.

I love the fact that it puts the power of android in everyones hands, without the need to learn java programming which I for one tried but could not get into.

Although I do wonder if Erel has figured out the key to human cloning as not only does he find time to work on B4A he also somehow manages to be very helpful on the forums and I have no idea how he finds the time but am very glad he does

Dave