Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut ...

You’ve likely heard of the “vomit comet” — an rather graphic nickname for the aircraft used to provide short bursts of near-weightlessness by flying along a parabolic trajectory. They’re used to train ...

A mobile app development start-up spawned from an open source MIT project has come out with Thunkable, adding to the pantheon of simplified drag-and-drop tools designed to let "anyone" become a coder.

Google is putting the power of Android application development into users' hands. With a new tool dubbed App Inventor, Google Labs is giving everyone a taste of mobile app creation. According to ...

Fifty-six teachers and students gathered on 30 September 2017 at the CERIDIAN training centre to attend an introductory course on MIT App Inventor organized by the UNESCO YouthMobile Initiative. The ...

Android has a reputation as an open and accessible platform, especially for developers. That might be why MIT rolled out its App Inventor online tool that lets you use a drag-and-drop palette of ...

Early this summer, I wrote about Google's App Inventor for Android devices, calling it a slick tool for schools. Having finally coded up a couple apps last night (see my related article and gallery ...

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 ...

According to Malwarebytes, attackers are using the simple App Inventor tool to quickly build malicious apps. Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from space missions to fax ...