To create apps with App Inventor for Android, users work in their computer’s browser. Thanks to a live connection with the phone, however, their app appears there as well.

App Inventor — a Google cast-out that is now maintained by MIT — is a graphical tool that unlocks the power of an Android handset to those with the most basic of programming understanding.

So rather than kill the project altogether, Google partnered with MIT to open source App Inventor. It’s taken close to half a year, but now the first open source version of App Inventor is ...

In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

Suppose someone came to talk to you and said, “I need your help. I have a Raspberry Pi-based robot and I want to develop a ...

Earlier this year Google announced an invitation-only solution called App Inventor. The web-based product offered the ability for non-developers to easily drag-and-drop to create Android ...

July 14, 2010 Google has released App Inventor for Android, a new Java development environment aimed at the recently oft-targeted non-coder developer who wants to build an app for the Android ...

The App Inventor source code was released by Google and MIT yesterday as part of a three-month project to create a full-fledged App Inventor server for public use.

When you first look at Google App Inventor for Android, it may not look like much. That is to say, it's ugly. But as with many Google services, beneath a layer of homeliness, there appears to be ...

Google has now announced the closure of its Android App Inventor. A tool that was created by Google to enable anyone to be able to create Android apps with no programming skills ...