MIT’s App Inventor can help feds quickly create Android and iOS mobile apps

In today’s digital world, mobile applications have become the glue that connects people with both information and just about every kind of service. In many ways, they are at the core of business innovation and government operations. But creating those applications has traditionally required some pretty advanced skillsets, not the least of which is extensive knowledge of modern programming languages like Python, C++, Java, Rust and others. And none of those languages are very easy to learn.

That is why I was so surprised to discover the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s newly expanded App Inventor platform. Originally designed as an educational tool for young students, the platform is now breaking down barriers to application programming and allowing anyone to create complex and advanced Android and iOS applications with very little training required.

To review the free platform, I loaded it up on an Android tablet. It’s available for Android in the Google Play Store and for iOS devices in the Apple App Store. Getting MIT App Inventor from one of the app stores allows users to test their applications right on their phones or devices as they build them. That is probably the best way to use the tool, however, there is also an emulator mode which works with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux devices.

There are five tutorials to get people started with building applications. They cover most of the basics, including explaining how to create objects like buttons within a new application, how to make them intera ..

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