Their apps were built with Google's App Inventor, one of a wave of new tools designed to allow people without programming experience to create apps and games for their phones and tablets.

Earlier this year Google announced an invitation-only solution called App Inventor. The web-based product offered the ability for non-developers to easily drag-and-drop to create Android ...

After struggling for almost six months to become somewhat proficient at Python, I was extremely impressed with how much I could do using the MIT App Inventor platform.