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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

Chapter 5. Building an Event App

Now that we've successfully created a game app, let's try something new! In this chapter, you will learn to use more components and blocks—this time, to create an event app. This type of app is helpful to organize an event where you will gather a group of people for a specific activity, such as a party, book club, outing, or meeting. In building this type of app, you will learn how to do the following:

  • Include images

  • Create a navigation menu of buttons

  • Add multiple screens

  • Use multiple labels

  • Set up a map feature

We are transitioning into a beginner-intermediate level of app-making, so you will discover that some features in this app require multiple steps. For example, in this chapter, we will be setting up the user interface for the RSVP form and the Guest List display, but we will actually be creating the database and coding the blocks for these in Chapter 6, Introduction to Databases.

As with any tutorial, this one will most probably spark creative ideas about...