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

Back in July 2010, Google announced a nifty educational project called App Inventor. The goal? Give non-programmers a relatively easy way to build their own applications for the Android platform ...

Meanwhile the core code and inspiration for the App Inventor project came from the other two professors involved in the project now in the form of Klopfer's lab and Resnick's Scratch project.

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 ...