App Inventor was always a bit of a strange beast - one in a long long line of building-block development environments, but with the bonus features of being at least partly web-based, and having the resulting app actually run for real on your phone. It was never going to replace a full development system, and as far as I know it couldn’t generate apps which could be published in the market, but still, it was a interesting idea.
The interesting thing, of course, is that if it’s open sourced properly, it could well go on to bigger and better things. Or it could die in possibly-deserved obscurity….
(Source: androidcentral.com)
