B4A – Develop native Android apps using Visual Basic

B4A (formerly called Basic4android) is a powerful, friendly and free rapid application development tool for creating native Android applications, developed by Anywhere Software (Erel Uziel) from Israel. It serves as an alternative to Java programming, utilizes an object-based language and event-driven architecture, resembles Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET, but is specifically tailored for the native Android environment.