Fancy yourself as an app developer? It might be easier (and cheaper) than you think to get started, thanks to the Bitfountain Android Mini Course, which will teach you how to build your first app completely free.

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The United States Department of Defense has awarded a $2.9 million contract to build a private military-based app store for use on its networks. The firm Digital Management, based in Maryland, has been given 12 months to develop a “mobile device management system and mobile application store” that can handle the Pentagon’s incredibly high security requirements.

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We have some good news for anyone interested in the world of app development. App Inventor has returned! For anyone who remembers, App Inventor was a way for your average person to learn about development while creating simple apps using a drag-and-drop concept. A year and many cat apps later, App Inventor was discontinued by Google and open-sourced for anyone looking to further its development. Being an educational tool, it wasn’t surprising when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to scoop it up and continue the work Google started. Fast-forward to today, and the first beta-version of MIT App Inventor is ready for download to anyone with a Google account.