Simplified visual tool to create Android-applications, from which Google declined last year, was revived by clicking on the rails of the open source project.

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In July 2010, Google released a software tool that enables even a person unfamiliar with programming to develop mobile applications for Android-phones. Clearly, this automation software allows you to build a simple product, but if you look, many people are not digging in the wilds of what the code as the challenges they face is easy to implement by software ready units. These include tasks such commonplaces GPS-positioning, working with SMS, interactions with services such as Twitter, access to the camera, converting speech to text, etc.

In the absence of any significant interest from users to the App Inventor Internet Corporation abandoned him at the end of last year. Then, having made friends with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the instrument was transferred to the form of an open project with a task for the three months to create a full-fledged server App Inventor for public use. The initiative is beyond the scope of mobile learning center, pursuing learning objectives computer literacy non-technical methods.

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