The team at MIT was also fielding more and more feature requests from App Inventor users. But did not have the resource to serve all the requests. So both demand and potential for growth were clear.

The MIT App Inventor program is an open source web platform for making apps that is ... Students aged 18 or older can also apply for Google Summer of Code projects to work on MIT App Inventor.

MIT announced that its App Inventor tool to enable users to easily build applications for Android phones is now in beta.

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.