Google is also targeting Android and/or Chrome OS on the desktop — Chrome OS for simple, web-app-centric tasks, and Android for running more conventional applications.

It's still a bit rough around the edges, but the beta of Google's App Inventor lets you create mobile apps with a drag-and-drop graphical user interface.

Giving Google App Inventor a spin Google has created a simple way for us to make our own Android apps. To prove even the dimmest of wits can produce something usable, we had a go.

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 ...

Google has thrown open the doors to App Inventor, its previously closed-beta Android software creation tool. Now, as long as you have a Google account,… ...

Google App Inventor, the simplified Android app creation tool that went dark last year, is getting a new lease on life as an open-source project at MIT. The App Inventor source code was released ...

I just received my invite to App Inventor so now I can report on what it’s all about. To be fair, these are my first impressions of a product that has just entered beta so what we’ve got here ...

The Google App Inventor, which was junked last month, is a user-friendly programme that will help you create custom apps for your Android devices.

When you first look at Google App Inventor for Android, it may not look like much. That is to say, it's ugly. But as with many Google services, beneath a layer of homeliness, there appears to be ...

According to Google: “The App Inventor team has created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing ‘programming-like’ stuff– blocks to ...

Google on Monday revealed a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software.

Google’s decision to leave the fate of App Inventor in the hands of the open source world has expectedly met resistance from the project’s more fervent supporters.