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

To create apps with App Inventor for Android, users work in their computer’s browser. Thanks to a live connection with the phone, however, their app appears there as well.

So rather than kill the project altogether, Google partnered with MIT to open source App Inventor. It’s taken close to half a year, but now the first open source version of App Inventor is ...

App Inventor — a Google cast-out that is now maintained by MIT — is a graphical tool that unlocks the power of an Android handset to those with the most basic of programming understanding.

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.

The App Inventor tool also ensures developers don't create a bunch of slipshod code (which is the last thing the Android platform needs). MIT's tool uses pre-programmed chains of actions ...