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.

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 ...

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.

They’re one target for Google ‘s new App Inventor for Android, which offers browser-based, drag-and-drop app development.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Apparently some Google App Inventor users weren’t aware that the Google service would be shut down and didn’t save their projects in time. A post on the MIT App Inventor developers’ blog ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When you open the App Inventor, you're presented with a very Googlish user interface, similar to the Google Apps components such as Docs.