Android App Inventor - MIT Center for Mobile Learning

Google announced today that Google App Inventor will be a key part of the MIT Centre for Mobile Learning. MIT will take stewardship of the project and will actively develop and promote the service as a teaching tool.

Given the track record MIT have with open source software this is good news for the App Inventor community.

Android App Inventor - Closing Down

With the winding down of Google Labs, Google has announced that Android App Inventor will no longer be supported by Google and will be converted to an Open Source application.

The service will remain available until at least the end of the year, however the URL will change in the near future. The viability of the product will depend on a benefactor taking control of the project and providing hosting.