If you've ever had a great idea for an Android app but lack the technical skills to put it together, Google App Inventor is the software for you. Freshly launched by the search giant this morning, ...

Likely more consequential, the phone shown off in Rubin’s photos also features a novel user interface optimized for the elongated screen. It seems to use tile-like apps that can be stacked on top of ...

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 ...

I spent around 90 minutes this morning cranking away on a few test applications in App Inventor, and while I’m very excited about it, this is not going to be a walk in the park for “ordinary people”.

Some have dubbed the latest smartphones "app phones." After all, the redefinition of the smartphone from the days of Windows Mobile and PalmOS has been the sheer number of helpful, effective, yet ...

Google on Monday revealed a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software. The beta version of the Web site for App Inventor for Android went ...

Google’s new App Inventor for Android brings app creation to the masses. It might not result in any truly amazing apps, but it could definitely result in some new development addicts. Making a truly ...

This morning Google officially unveiled App Inventor for Android, giving non-developer Android users the ability to build their own applications using a visual, puzzle-like interface. I’ve been ...

After several months in private beta, Google’s App Inventor for Android is now available for general use, so any business or individual can start using the technology to create Android apps of their ...

Earlier this year Google announced an invitation-only solution called App Inventor. The web-based product offered the ability for non-developers to easily drag-and-drop to create Android applications ...

Google’s new App Inventor for Android comes with an ambitious goal: Allow anyone to create simple apps for their mobile phone. The tool, still in invitation-only beta, offers a graphical drag-and-drop ...