Here’s an excerpt from Google’s post, which was written by Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT: App Inventor for Android—a programming system that makes it easy ...

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.

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 ...

Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut down the service last year. MIT is still working on rolling out its version of the ...

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 ...