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.

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

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.

Google started out in search, but the company has expanded into a wide range of businesses over the years, starting with advertising and continuing with email, document creation, mobile operating ...

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 applications ...

MIT brings Google App Inventor back from the dead as open-source project Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut down the service ...

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 ...

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 custom Android app to control it.” If you are like me, ...

MIT has placed its revival of the recently open-sourced App Inventor software from Google into public beta.