Well, after Erel dropped the bomb :) https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/its-time-to-grow.113257/, it has created lots of panic, hugging and crying (read the messages in the thread) initially. But as the dust settled down, I observed something more. Below are my observation and may be...
Bought a renewal for my license last week, happy to do it even with B4A going free this week. B4A is the best software I've used since Borland Delphi back in the day. It's why I still build my own Android apps. Onward and upward!
Like 1 yr ago , I was starting a new project with handhelds for android, so I suggested B4A, the leader of the project told me he researched about it but wasn´t convinced because the UI was old and antique, if only I could show him now what has become B4A and all the ecosystem B4X.......I am sure that even Kotlin (that was the choice for language), is not as fast for development that B4A.
Thank you very much to all of you, the truth is a great community and make this B4A product wonderful for Android development. I try to collaborate whenever I know the answers, I'm just learning to use B4A.
I am a programming teacher at SENA (National Learning Service) in Colombia www.sena.edu.co Is there a problem if I teach the use of B4A to my students? Thank you very much for answering.
This has been asked and replied to many times over the years, teaching B4A/B4X.
The answer is yes, of course you can teach B4A to your students, especially as now they don't need to worry about making a mandatory payment to keep learning and developing apps.
Hopefully they will enjoy using B4A, and in the future as they make money with apps they will donate/contribute to help with the ongoing development of the software
The more students you teach, the better it is for Anywhere Software and this community...