2013/10/07 by Shaileen Crawford Pokress, Pokress, Shaileen Crawford, José Juan Dominguez Veiga +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Software Testing and Debugging Techniques #Teaching and Learning Programming #cs.CY #cs.HC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.2830
3 pages, 2 figures, PRoMoTo 2013 proceedings (arXiv:1309.5509)
openalex publication_date 2013/10/07 · arxiv created 2013/10/24 · arxiv updated 2013/10/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
MIT App Inventor is a drag-and-drop visual programming tool for designing and building fully functional mobile apps for Android. App Inventor promotes a new era of personal mobile computing in which people are empowered to design, create, and use personally meaningful mobile technology solutions for their daily lives, in endlessly unique situations. App Inventor's intuitive programming metaphor and incremental development capabilities allow the developer to focus on the logic for programming an app rather than the syntax of the coding language, fostering digital literacy for all. Since it was moved from Google to MIT, a number of improvements have been added, and research projects are underway.