At best, App Inventor will spark a torrent of creativity and, when we finally see Android-based pad-style computers, the result of simple programming with a compelling platform could be astounding.

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.

The system’s software is a simple program built in MIT App Inventor. ... Beginner’s Android/Arduino Example Shows The Power Of App Inventor. February 15, 2013 by Mike Szczys 20 Comments ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.