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 editing ...

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 ...

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”.

ZDNet's Larry Dignan featured Google's new Android programming tool for the masses this morning in his piece, "Google's master Android plan: We're all mobile app developers now." While the business ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut ...