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 ...

MIT’s project is part of the Center for Mobile Learning, which announced several months ago that it would be taking over App Inventor when Google shut down the service on December 31, 2011.

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.

CEO Arun Saigal explained the project on the Product Hunt Web site: We made Thunkable to help anyone to build native mobile apps. We've been working on this tool at MIT and Google for the past few ...

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Here is where the real innovation of MIT App Inventor shines through because it makes programming the application very visual. Each function is represented by a colorful jigsaw puzzle-like block.

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 ...

Google and MIT have released App Inventor for Android today on an open source basis. Written by Charlie Osborne, Contributing Writer Jan. 21, 2012 at 2:23 a.m. PT ...