DUE Starting AppInventor Working Connections 2012

Components of AppInventor AppInventor Designer  Build the GUI AppInventor Blocks Editor  Programming with Blocks Simulator or Device  Download and test on your own device  Use an online emulator

Just drag tiles

Get Setup All you need is a Gmail Account  Do the Install once then everything is web- based So let’s install….

Basic Concepts GUI Building  Buttons  Check Boxes  Lists  Text/Labels  Non-Visible items

More than Basics Canvas Databases Media Social Other

Making it Work – Blocks Editor Built-ins  Logic  On the fly creation  Math  other MyBlocks  Methods  Attributes

Trying it out Emulator Device

Let’s Build our first app! Instead of Hello World, lets do Hello Kitty! Picture and Sound Files (zip) is on Wiki page for today Let me show you what it will do Then we will walk through building it together

MyVirtualPet App

Next App: Scribbling Demo Build It: See handout and follow along

Scribbler Extensions See if you can add  Wipe  Snapshot  Change line width  Save

Next App: Mad Penguin Demo Build It: See Handout and follow along

Some More Apps to try These are from a curriculum built in UK Can be found at  velopment.html velopment.html Virtual Map Tour Wiff-Waff Coin Toss

Free Play Try to add some variations to our existing apps Use the extensions in the last handout for more ideas Explore AppInventor Blocks and objects Build something new

Solutions - Scribbler