Both educators and students can create simple mobile applications for various purposes and publish them online for other people to use. There are many websites via the Internet that include software for making free mobile applications! Just about any person can use this software and produce an application within about 2 hours that will work by accessing content that has been published on a website or a personal server. Many of these websites will also host your application along with the content and data needed to run the application on their servers for free!