Google and MIT have announced an initial free and open-source release of the 'App Inventor' source code for Android. In the same week that Google announced it will be closing its Picnik image ...

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 App Inventor, the simplified Android app creation tool that went dark last year, is getting a new lease on life as an open-source project at MIT. The App Inventor source code was released ...

And because applications can now be created in-house without even relying on any external libraries, those applications made by App Inventor will be free from hidden vulnerabilities or malicious code.

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 ...

Instead of entering lines of code, App Inventor allows you to build an entire application by dragging and dropping items like buttons, text entry boxes, and images onto the application builder ...

Android App Inventor is not about the next generation of flatulence apps. It's about the essence of 21st Century education.