The project is alive and I have an app with it in the app store.
Read the comment in this forum thread:
But yes I agree it would be nice if updates like new releases of MOE, the gradle plugin, the intellij plugin and other stuff would get posted on twitter and the blog. They now are posted as forum posts on different forum threads. The progress not being clear is bad for the image of MOE.
For example the gradle plugin was updated last 12 days ago: