Google App Inventor, the simplified Android app creation tool that went dark last year, is getting a new lease on life as an open-source project at MIT. The App Inventor source code was released ...

In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

Google and MIT have announced an initial free and open-source release of the 'App Inventor' source code for Android.

And because applications can now be created in-house without even relying on any external libraries, those applications made by App Inventor will be free from hidden vulnerabilities or malicious code.

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 ...

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.

App Inventor was the brainchild of the MIT computer science and engineering professor Hal Abelson, who was on sabbatical at Google at the time.