Code With AI2. Introduction

David Briddock introduces a new Android App coding series with App Inventor 2

In December 2010, Google launched App Inventor, an interesting and innovative attempt to open up Android app development by removing the need to learn or use a traditional coding language. Instead, apps are created by snapping together colourful interlocking blocks.

However, this initial version had a number of frustrating shortcomings, so in 2011 Google handed over the code and development responsibility to a Mobile Learning team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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