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”.

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Google is trying to bridge the massive gap between the Android Market and Apple’s App Store for iOS with App Inventor. The application allows anyone to build a smartphone application, with no ...

It's taken me a while to find the time to really explore Google App Inventor, Google's software that allows non-programmers to easily create personal applications and explore programming concepts ...

Google will discontinue its App Inventor web platform, but an open source alternative will follow it soon. After closing down the current App Inventor, Google will soon make the platform available as ...

Last time, I described how to write a simple Android app and get it talking to your code on Linux. So, of course, we need an example. Since I’ve been on something of a macropad kick lately, I decided ...

Back in January, we talked a bit about the new MIT App Inventor software aimed at helping people that aren't developers to build their own apps. MIT promised to have App Inventor available in Q1 of ...

Last week Condé Nast debuted a free web app called Santa’s Hideout, a registry for children’s Christmas gifts. Kids browse a virtual toy store and build a wish list; parents set spending limits and ...