Android isn’t just for smartphones and tablets. Google is also targeting Android and/or Chrome OS on the desktop — Chrome OS for simple, web-app-centric tasks, and Android for running more ...

This summer Google launched a set of tools called Google App Inventor aimed at making it easy for anyone to develop Android apps without learning to code using programming languages. Basically App ...

But there are a whole lot of users out there who are more technically sophisticated than “average,” yet who aren’t quite ready to download an SDK and learn a new programming language (even an easy one ...

Originally unveiled back in July, so positive has been the response to Google's App Inventor for Android that the company has decided to open up its toolset to everyone. The program - though still ...

Google on Monday revealed a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software. The beta version of the Web site for App Inventor for Android went ...

[timecom-gdgt url=”http://gdgt.com/google/android/2-2/” style=”full” float=”right”] Google is attempting to make Android app creation accessible to ...

Last month’s surprising closure of Google Labs may have its first significant casualty: Google has announced it is ending support for App Inventor for Android, but the company is ultimately leaving ...

Another "graphical programming" environment along the same lines is LabVIEW, which dates back to the mid 80s and is still actively developed. You use graphical widgets for everything ("a+b-c" requires ...

A few years ago Google launched a project called App Inventor that makes it possible for anyone to build simple Android apps without learning how to write in programming language. But while the ...

Google’s new App Inventor for Android comes with an ambitious goal: Allow anyone to create simple apps for their mobile phone. The tool, still in invitation-only beta, offers a graphical drag-and-drop ...