The MIT App Inventor program is an open source web platform for making apps that is backed by an MIT partnership with Google, and a decade of research. Professor Hal Abelson heads the team and has ...

While the MIT App Inventor platform started out as a way to teach programming skills to young people, it has now evolved to become a powerful tool for creating mobile applications that anyone can use.

App Inventor — a Google cast-out that is now maintained by MIT — is a graphical tool that unlocks the power of an Android handset to those with the most basic of programming understanding.

Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut down the service last year. MIT is still working on rolling out its version of the ...