At best, App Inventor will spark a torrent of creativity and, when we finally see Android-based pad-style computers, the result of simple programming with a compelling platform could be astounding.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Google has created a program that allows people who aren’t typical programmers, to create simple (& sometimes sophisticated) Applications for the Android Platform. Pretty cool idea if you ask me ...

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 ...

George Weiss is 84, and he just may be the eldest mobile application inventor in America. His app is called Dabble – The Fast Thinking Word Game, and it is now available for iPhone, iPod touch ...