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”.

I don’t consider myself a programmer or a coder. I’m a bit of a computer geek with a little programming experience, but the bulk of it was over 10 years ago. I have dreams of getting back into it and ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Two of the contributors to the App Inventor open source project have secured $120,000 seed funding from YC to launch a commercial version called Thunkable. App Inventor, in case you have missed it, is ...

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 ...

MIT brings Google App Inventor back from the dead as open-source project Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut down the service ...