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 ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google’s forthcoming App Inventor Last week I was discussing Android applications and concluded by mentioning ...

Ars covered this about two weeks ago, but I wanted to start a thread where people can link and demo quality apps and/or discuss Google's new App Inventor: The code blocks they generate looking ...

Early this summer, I wrote about Google's App Inventor for Android devices, calling it a slick tool for schools. Having finally coded up a couple apps last night (see my related article and gallery ...

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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”.

Google touts their Android operating system as an open source network that encourages creative thinking. Sure this openness has produced a ton of useless fart/burp apps, but things are about to get a ...

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I just received my invite to App Inventor so now I can report on what it’s all about. To be fair, these are my first impressions of a product that has just entered beta so what we’ve got here is just ...

It's no secret that the success or demise of a computing platform largely depends on the developer community behind it. Google seems to share this notion and today they announced a new Labs program ...