H-sib Workshop: App Maker

H-sib Workshop turns a few plain choices into a real Android app you can install and share. You do not need to know how to program, and if you want to, you can add your own code.

Choose what you want to make: notes, an expense tracker, a quiz, a small catalog, a calculator or a waiting line. Name it, put your name on it, pick a look and an icon, and the Workshop builds the app on your phone in a few seconds.

What you get

- A real app file you can save or share. It runs on its own and keeps its data on the phone where it is installed.

- Apps that work offline. Notes are saved, expenses add up, quiz scores are kept, and what you added is still there after you close and reopen the app.

- Draw and code: add a drawing to any page and make it move with a few lines of H-sib Script, a small, safe language that reads like Python. Step by step lessons in the Guide take you from your first circle to your own ideas.

- Ready made apps run by code you can read and change: a calculator with nineteen keys and a waiting line that serves people in order.

- Buttons that run your code, and code that can read and change the records of your app.

- Four themes for every app: light, dark, true black and a vivid dark.

- Categories you control: in the expense app, add, rename and delete categories, and see what you spent in each one.

- The Atelier: publish your finished apps, see the rankings of makers, rate apps and use another maker's app as a starting point (only when its maker allows it). Signing in with Google and a public handle are needed for this part; everything else works without them.

- Updates: make a new version of your app, and it installs over the old one and keeps your data.

- A key backup you control. Android needs one signing key per app. The Workshop keeps it safe on your phone, and you can export a backup locked with your own passphrase.

Private by design

- Your apps and their data stay on your phone. Signing in is optional and everything works without it.

- If you choose to sign in with Google, a private copy of your designs (their pages, words and code, never your signing keys or pictures) is kept in your own area, so you can use them on another phone. Only you can read it, and you can delete it, and your sign in record, at any time in the app.

- No ads and no tracking of what you do inside the apps you make.

- Android never asks you for anything: the Workshop uses only Internet access for the optional sign in (the Google sign in libraries also list network state and fingerprint, which Android grants silently and the Workshop never uses on its own). The apps you make need no permissions.

Fair credit

Every app made with H-sib Workshop shows "Created by (your name) using H-sib" on its About screen, with your name first. The credit cannot be removed or edited inside the Workshop, and an app whose code was changed after it was made will not run.

Good to know

- Apps in the Atelier are made by other people. You can report an app or hide a maker.

- The Workshop makes app files for you to share or install yourself. It does not publish apps to Google Play for you.

- Code is optional and runs only inside the app you make, in H-sib Script. The Workshop is not a tool for writing apps in other languages, and it does not make accounts, online features or payments.