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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...