Google is known for carrying out ideas simply to see what can be done with them. A case in point is the Google Fiber project. The latest, however, might very well change the way that mobile ...

Earlier this year Google announced an invitation-only solution called App Inventor. The web-based product offered the ability for non-developers to easily drag-and-drop to create Android applications ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has ...