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.

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.