Google Gives Android App Inventor A New Home At MIT Media Lab

Back in July 2010, Google announced a nifty educational project called App Inventor. The goal? Give non-programmers a relatively easy way to build their own applications for the Android platform, using a drag-and-drop interface to add pre-written 'chunks' of code. It was heavily inspired by the learning language?Scratch, but with an Android focus. I ran the platform through its paces soon after its launch, attempting to build some basic apps of my own. It was rough. It wasn't even close to being easy to use. But it was fun, and it clearly had a lot of potential in a learning environment. A year later, around 100,000 people were using the platform, many of them in education. Unfortunately, last week Hack Education broke the news that Google was going to be shutting down App Inventor, despite the fact that it had gotten substantial traction with educators.

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