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App Inventor 2 Essentials

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App Inventor 2 Essentials

Overview of this book

App Inventor 2 will take you on a journey of mobile app development. We begin by introducing you to the functionalities of App Inventor and giving you an idea about the types of apps you can develop using it. We walk you through the technical set up so you can take advantage of the interactive development environment (live testing). You will get hands-on, practical experience building three different apps using tutorials. Along the way, you will learn computer science principles as well as tips to help you prepare for the creative process of building an app from scratch. By the end of the journey, you will learn how to package an app and deploy it to app markets. App Inventor 2 Essentials prepares you to amass a resource of skills, knowledge and experience to become a mobile app developer
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
App Inventor 2 Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Wow! You have learned a great deal about the App Inventor platform in this chapter and you have built and programmed your first app! This is a huge accomplishment! But, as you may have noticed, we have an issue to fix. We will demonstrate not only how to debug your first bug, but also how to add more features. Really, this is just the beginning of your mobile computing adventure. There is much more to learn and create! Our Fling app is functional and simple, but I'm sure you can think of countless more features to enhance it. In the next chapter, you will learn how to expand the app's complexity by creating a scoring mechanism that is displayed when the ball touches the top edge, by allowing the ball to be flung only from the lower half of the screen, and by creating levels and increasing the speed of the ball

By learning how to add more functionality to an existing app, you will gain experience developing multiple versions. This process of building an app with added features is what...