If you are this sort of armchair developer, you might want to check out the MIT App Inventor. The software is a developer platform that is now available to anyone who wants to grab it as open source.

MIT announced that its App Inventor tool to enable users to easily build applications for Android phones is now in beta.

In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

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.

While MIT App Inventor’s original target was educators and students, offering a free learning tool to lower the barrier of entry to coding, the pair say the success of the software — which has ...