Google's new App Inventor for Android comes with an ambitious goal: Allow anyone to create simple apps for their mobile phone. The tool, still in invitation-only beta, offers a graphical drag-and-drop ...

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There are two main parts to App Inventor: a browser-based design screen and the Java-based Blocks Editor (which is launched in a separate window by clicking an “Open the Blocks Editor” button). There ...