Then MIT and Google open-sourced the App Inventor code in January. Now, the project has hit beta as MIT promised it would by the end of the first quarter of 2012.

The app used to control this intense ice-rider is a custom app written using MIT App Inventor, which has the ability to work with Bluetooth classic as well as BLE.

In order to ensure the future success of App Inventor, Google has funded the establishment of a Center for Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab. Sometime in the first quarter of 2012, the Center ...

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 a visual programming language for developing ...

It's been about a year since Google launched its Android App Inventor, its DIY tool for building Android apps. The object of one of the most scathing reviews in the history of tech journalism, App ...

Popular app "Android App Inventor" was handed over to MIT, as well as a decently sized donation to help fund a new mobile learning initiative. What has happened between now and then?

The App Inventor tool also ensures developers don't create a bunch of slipshod code (which is the last thing the Android platform needs). MIT's tool uses pre-programmed chains of actions ...

By now you've probably heard of Google's App Inventor for Android, a web-based development environment that's meant to make it possible for non-developers to build their own Android applications ...