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.

The girls’ technical savvy springs from their mastery of MIT App Inventor, a tool that lets people with virtually no coding experience make Android apps. Its creator, MIT professor Hal Abelson ...

MIT App Inventor 1, launched in March 2012 after incubation at Google, currently has 1.3 million users who have built 3.2 million apps.

The success of MIT’s App Inventor meant it had outgrown the resources afforded it within academia, say Thunkable’s co-founders Arun Saigal (CEO) and WeiHua Li (CTO).

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.

App Inventor for Android—a programming system that makes it easy for learners to create mobile apps for Android smartphones—currently supports a community of about 100,000 educators, students ...

The entire setup is controlled using a smartphone application developed in MIT App Inventor, a super-easy way to prototype Android applications.

If all goes well, App Inventor should become a full MIT service soon enough, with the institute pledging to produce resources and support to help budding developers get their Android apps out of ...