With App Inventor — a joint project of MIT’s Media Lab and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — anyone can build an app for an Android phone just by using a web browser ...

The App Inventor source code was released by Google and MIT yesterday as part of a three-month project to create a full-fledged App Inventor server for public use.

Google announced a product called App Inventor, which aims to make app development simpler. (CNN) -- It's not uncommon these days for people to know how to build websites and create blogs.

MIT has placed its revival of the recently open-sourced App Inventor software from Google into public beta.

The success of MIT’s App Inventor meant it had outgrown the resources afforded it within academia, say Thunkable’s co-founders Arun Saigal (CEO) and WeiHua Li (CTO).

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