App Inventor for Android is in Beta, and with it, you can start building your own Android Apps in minutes! This free software will be released in the next few weeks, and some folks are already using it! Sign up now, and get started on the process, and soon you’ll have your own copy of this amazing FREE software!

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use ‘blocks’ to specify the app's behavior.

The App Inventor team has created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing "programming-like" stuff-- blocks to store information, blocks for repeating actions, and blocks to perform actions under certain conditions. There are even blocks to use a phone’s GPS or talk to services like Twitter.

The blocks editor uses the Open Blocks Java library for creating visual blocks programming languages. Open Blocks is distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Scheller Teacher Education Program and derives from thesis research by Ricarose Roque. Open Blocks visual programming is closely related to the Scratch programming language, a project of the MIT Media Laboratory's Lifelong Kindergarten Group.

The compiler that translates the visual blocks language for implementation on Android uses the Kawa Language Framework and Kawa's dialect of the Scheme programming language, developed by Per Bothner and distributed as part of the Gnu Operating System by the Free Software Foundation.

Make an app that gives a guided tour of your hometown, or one that reads text messages to you aloud. Make an app to track your grocery list and show you which stores have your groceries at the lowest price… make any app you can imagine! App Inventor puts the power in your hands!