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 ...

This summer Google launched a set of tools called Google App Inventor aimed at making it easy for anyone to develop Android apps without learning to code using programming languages. Basically App ...

It’s a fact that Google is stuffed to the brim with really, really smart people. You might think you’re a bit of a brainbox, but compared to those dudes at Google, we’re all idiots. So to help us feel ...

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 ...

Google is known for carrying out ideas simply to see what can be done with them. A case in point is the Google Fiber project. The latest, however, might very well change the way that mobile ...

Last month’s surprising closure of Google Labs may have its first significant casualty: Google has announced it is ending support for App Inventor for Android, but the company is ultimately leaving ...

But there are a whole lot of users out there who are more technically sophisticated than “average,” yet who aren’t quite ready to download an SDK and learn a new programming language (even an easy one ...

According to a few twitter posts, Google has started responding to those of you requesting invites to use their new Android App Inventor. This is basically an app that simplifies application writing.

Google has decided to drop App Inventor as part of its closure of Google Labs. The project is to be open sourced but there are doubts about whether or not this will be viable. We all suppose that ...

Google seems to be going about this in a sensible way, by trialing App Inventor with students and other non-traditional developers. Time will tell, but if Google can solve this problem, it’s another ...