App Inventor Gets Open Source Treatment Thanks To MIT

Inventors and app developers are about to get an early Christmas present courtesy of MIT. The WYSIWYG app building tool is back thanks to MIT and with this, received a donation from none other than Google to create the MIT Center for Mobile Learning. One of the first items on its agenda was to resurrect the infamous App Inventor— you know the landmark app creator tool that was sadly shut down by Google. MIT has followed through with the resurrection of the app and has released the initial source code to the masses. In addition, they with occasionally update the source code to match what it is doing in-house.

Don’t expect to hear about too much detail about the source code for now. MIT does not have much documentation of the source code at this time as they are focusing their resources on getting a large-scale public server up by April. However, there’s an ever-growing community already started which likely includes information for those wanting to get up and running today.

Interested folks ready to jump in and try out the source code can go ahead and register at the MIT link below. If you don’t hear an immediate resposne from MIT, know that it’s likely because they already have a long list of interested users and perhaps don’t want to overload the service— especially because it’s in its infancy. Is anyone else excited about the idea of users being able to create the next big app again? Sound off in the Comments section and let us know what you think.

[via MIT Blog by Android And Me]

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