But there are a whole lot of users out there who are more technically sophisticated than “average,” yet who aren’t quite ready to download an SDK and learn a new programming language (even an easy one ...

Google's new App Inventor for Android comes with an ambitious goal: Allow anyone to create simple apps for their mobile phone. The tool, still in invitation-only beta, offers a graphical drag-and-drop ...

Originally unveiled back in July, so positive has been the response to Google's App Inventor for Android that the company has decided to open up its toolset to everyone. The program - though still ...

Last month’s surprising closure of Google Labs may have its first significant casualty: Google has announced it is ending support for App Inventor for Android, but the company is ultimately leaving ...

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 ...

Google has revealed its new App Inventor tool, a code-free design platform intended to promote development on its open-standards Android mobile operating system. The App Inventor claims to require no ...

The Google App Inventor for Android allows any user to build a mobile app from scratch for free without any programming knowledge. So just how easy is the tool? According to the New York Times, it has ...

Do-it-yourself (DIY) developer tools may affect the quality of apps but they will help open up competition and boost user interest in the mobile market, according to industry watchers. Building mobile ...

Google on Monday revealed a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software. The beta version of the Web site for App Inventor for Android went ...

Mark Gibbs loves the Android operating system and isn’t ashamed to say so. The more I use the HTC Incredible, the more I like it. And the thing that really makes the Incredible, er, incredible is its ...