Welcome to App Inventor Edu

App Inventor for Android is a programming tool that makes it easy for anyone — programmers and non-programmers, adults and kids — to create mobile applications for the Android phone.
 
Mobile applications are triggering a fundamental shift in the way people experience computing. Ten years ago, people "went to the computer" to perform tasks and access the Internet, and they used cell phones only to make calls. Today, smartphones have become computers in our pockets, serving our communication and information needs and making the web part of all that we do. Ten years ago, people’s use of computing was largely dissociated from real life. Today, with the ubiquity of social networking and pervasive communication, online and offline life are becoming fused.
 
App Inventor is motivated by the vision that all of us should be able to create mobile applications rather than just consume them — with “tinkerable” platforms that we can control and reshape.
 
App Inventor was piloted by Google Research in 2010 and 2011. App Inventor development continues at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning (CML), whose other major projects include Scratch from the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the Media Lab and educational games and game building platforms from the Scheller Teacher Education Program lab. At the CML, we hope to harness these projects to change the nature of introductory education in science and technology, to link this education more closely to daily experience in the networked world, their interactions with others, and with the world of information.
 
These App Inventor Education pages will host educational resources, including stories from educators who have been using App Inventor. (See a video story here).
 
The CML is pleased to announce that App Inventor is now freely available for general public use. Please visit the App Inventor Blog and FAQ on using MIT App Inventor for more information.