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 ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning ...

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I spent around 90 minutes this morning cranking away on a few test applications in App Inventor, and while I’m very excited about it, this is not going to be a walk in the park for “ordinary people”.

Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning Google’s new and, as yet, un-released programming tool for the Android operating system called App Inventor for Android ...

I just received my invite to App Inventor so now I can report on what it’s all about. To be fair, these are my first impressions of a product that has just entered beta so what we’ve got here is just ...

It's no secret that the success or demise of a computing platform largely depends on the developer community behind it. Google seems to share this notion and today they announced a new Labs program ...

App Inventor is a new tool in Google Labs released to make it easy for anyone to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices. Up until now this tool was under wraps and available to ...

It's taken me a while to find the time to really explore Google App Inventor, Google's software that allows non-programmers to easily create personal applications and explore programming concepts ...

Despite the belief of some skeptics that Google’s new, free development software, App Inventor, will flood the Android market with useless apps, it’s not necessarily true that this product will lower ...