MIT Launches Google App Inventor in Beta
About two years ago, the search giant launched the Google App Inventor tool, which allows “people who are not familiar with programming” to write Android programs using a system for visual design of the application’s interface and its operation logic. In other words, the interface could be created “like in Delphi,” and the logic of the code had to be described by placing visual blocks in approximately the following way:
Here, by clicking on the button, the application screen changes to blue.
However, due to the lack of interest in Google App Inventor, the company closed the project a little over a year later, released its code under the Apache license and transferred it to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in order to create a full-fledged App Inventor server for public use. This initiative is now part of the MIT Mobile Learning Center for the purpose of teaching computer literacy using non-technical methods.
MIT was not long in coming and brought the project back to life by launching its public beta version, which you can try here - to access the system, you need a Google account.
You can take a look at the work of Google App Inventor in the video:
Here, by clicking on the button, the application screen changes to blue.
However, due to the lack of interest in Google App Inventor, the company closed the project a little over a year later, released its code under the Apache license and transferred it to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in order to create a full-fledged App Inventor server for public use. This initiative is now part of the MIT Mobile Learning Center for the purpose of teaching computer literacy using non-technical methods.
MIT was not long in coming and brought the project back to life by launching its public beta version, which you can try here - to access the system, you need a Google account.
You can take a look at the work of Google App Inventor in the video: