Google App Inventor was a very easy way for those Android users that don’t have much development experience to develop apps. This service provided by Google began a stint of very low quality apps being pushed to the Android Market. Now this tool that has only been around for a short time is being removed from Googles lineup.
Google’s Post via Google Labs:
With the winding down of Google Labs, Google will discontinue App Inventor as a Google product and will open source the code. Additionally, because of App Inventor’s success in the education space, we are exploring opportunities to support the educational use of App Inventor on an open source platform.
As a result of these changes App Inventor will be available through the end of the year but users should expect the current App Inventor URL, to change sometime in the next 90 days. Please subscribe to the App Inventor Announcement forum for future updates.
We liked the idea of App Inventor although we will not miss the low quality apps that were being developed by it with its removal.