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 the ...

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”.

ZDNet's Larry Dignan featured Google's new Android programming tool for the masses this morning in his piece, "Google's master Android plan: We're all mobile app developers now." While the business ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people… and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” – Steve Jobs It was a hive of activity at Hypercube ...

One of the things that we’re working on right now at MIT is a tool that will help all kinds of people to create more applications based on the new technology that we have. There’s so much coming out ...