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

After struggling for almost six months to become somewhat proficient at Python, I was extremely impressed with how much I could do using the MIT App Inventor platform.

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 ...

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 ...

The patent-pending invention provides a new app and wearable device for connecting and accessing all social media and communication platforms. In doing so, it enhances communication and convenience.

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.

The App Inventor source code was released by Google and MIT yesterday as part of a three-month project to create a full-fledged App Inventor server for public use.

Keeping the App Inventor community on side is going to be essential to scaling the business, given that a four-million strong user-base was able to be sustained by just two dedicated MIT staff.

When Google’s App Inventor beta was announced several weeks ago, I knew this was something we’d want to write about here at ProfHacker. Since Google describes App Inventor as Since the rest of ...