José Dominguez, Principal Engineer at the App Inventor Foundation, and Evan Patton, Lead Software Engineer at MIT App Inventor, are running two hands-on workshops at FOSDEM Junior 2026 in Brussels, designed to help young people build real apps fast with block-based coding.
Day 1: Build your own mobile apps with MIT App Inventor.
In this hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop, participants use MIT App Inventor to build two mobile apps from scratch for their Android or iOS devices, with a simple first app up and running in under 30 minutes.
Learn more: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BH7QBJ-learn_to_build_your_own_mobile_app_with_mit_app_inventor/
Day 2: Train and deploy a machine learning model with MIT App Inventor.
In this workshop, participants train their own Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to play a simple game, then test the model on phones and tablets using an app built with MIT App Inventor.