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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

Pushing data to the Fusion Table


When using multiple screens, you want to keep your blocks organized according to screen in the Blocks editor. Since we are getting ready to program blocks for the RSVP_Screen, we need to make sure we are on the RSVP_Screen in the Blocks editor.

To check this, look at the first of three buttons in the green menu bar next to the EventApp name. If you just finished working on the RSVP_Screen in the Designer and switched over to the Blocks editor, you will be on RSVP_Screen. But if not, you can easily navigate to RSVP_Screen by clicking the button that displays another screen name (Screen1 as shown in the following screenshot) and choosing RSVP_ Screen from the drop-down menu:

When the user clicks the Send RSVP button, we want to insert all three pieces of data into the Fusion Table. The following screenshot shows the block to achieve just this. This might look intimidating, but is actually quite simple:

Since we want our app to react to the Send RSVP button click...