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

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.

Google and MIT have announced an initial free and open-source release of the 'App Inventor' source code for Android. In the same week that Google announced it will be closing its Picnik image editing ...

MIT brings Google App Inventor back from the dead as open-source project Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut down the service ...

Back in July 2010, Google announced a nifty educational project called App Inventor. The goal? Give non-programmers a relatively easy way to build their own applications for the Android platform, ...