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 ...

Suppose someone came to talk to you and said, “I need your help. I have a Raspberry Pi-based robot and I want to develop a ...

Google's new App Inventor for Android comes with an ambitious goal: Allow anyone to create simple apps for their mobile phone. The tool, still in invitation-only beta, offers a graphical drag-and ...

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 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.

Google has revealed its new App Inventor tool, a code-free design platform intended to promote development on its open-standards Android mobile operating system. The App Inventor claims to require ...

According to Google: “The App Inventor team has created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing ‘programming-like’ stuff– blocks to ...

If, however, you are a casual code hacker then you may be interested to hear that Google will soon be releasing App Inventor for Android.

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

The Android code is very simple thanks to the Scratch-like App Inventor software which makes Android apps as easy as dragging some blocks around.