The girls’ technical savvy springs from their mastery of MIT App Inventor, a tool that lets people with virtually no coding experience make Android apps. Its creator, MIT professor Hal Abelson ...

The entire setup is controlled using a smartphone application developed in MIT App Inventor, a super-easy way to prototype Android applications.

MIT App Inventor 1, launched in March 2012 after incubation at Google, currently has 1.3 million users who have built 3.2 million apps.

During the five-day camp, students used MIT’s App Inventor programming tool to design and develop apps that run on mobile devices.

If all goes well, App Inventor should become a full MIT service soon enough, with the institute pledging to produce resources and support to help budding developers get their Android apps out of ...

Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut down the service last year. MIT is still working on rolling out its version of the ...

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).

Android App Inventor is not about the next generation of flatulence apps. It's about the essence of 21st Century education.