Android App Inventor goes open source

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Google and MIT have announced the initial free and open-source release from Google of the "App Inventor" source code. As of now there is little supporting documentation, once the MIT Center of Mobile Learning opens their App Inventor server to the public contributions to the code will be accepted. MIT developers are now busy in completing and deploying the large-scale public server and will come up with their own version under the name “MIT App Inventor”.
Initially launched to public on December 15, 2010, App Inventor was a DIY tool for building Android apps for novices with little to no knowledge of coding. When the product was not picked up to Google’s expectations, company decided to close it down and give it to open source community in the supervision of MIT Media Lab.
There is a Google Group here for people working with the code to relate their experiences with the code, ask questions, help each other, etc.