Drag and drop your way to Android programming. MIT App Inventor, re-released as a beta service (as of March 5, 2012) by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning after taking over the project from Google, is ...

After several months in private beta, Google’s App Inventor for Android is now available for general use, so any business or individual can start using the technology to create Android apps of their ...

One of the things that we’re working on right now at MIT is a tool that will help all kinds of people to create more applications based on the new technology that we have. There’s so much coming out ...

Last time, I described how to write a simple Android app and get it talking to your code on Linux. So, of course, we need an example. Since I’ve been on something of a macropad kick lately, I decided ...

Last week, we shared the news that Google’s Android App Inventor was being shelved, despite its popularity as an educational tool. Last week’s bad news is this ...

Google opens access to App Inventor tool to anyone with a Google account, giving them the step-by-step capability to build apps for their own Android phones. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

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

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 ...

But there are a whole lot of users out there who are more technically sophisticated than “average,” yet who aren’t quite ready to download an SDK and learn a new programming language (even an easy one ...

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 much ...