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 ...

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.

MIT has placed its revival of the recently open-sourced App Inventor software from Google into public beta.