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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

Sharing the Event App


With the Event App, we wanted to introduce you to the process of collecting and retrieving data. Now that you are approaching apps from more of a developer’s perspective, you will probably be aware that every time you enter your email address or other information into an app, that data is getting stored into a database. But, as we mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, Fusion Tables as a database has its limitations. If you were to share the Event App as it is with multiple event organizers, who start using it on different devices, there will be a problem because the app uses a single Fusion Table as the back end. If many people use the app for their different events, all of the data from all the different devices will be aggregated in to one single Fusion Table. Of course this will create mass confusion for the event organizers (and guests) as all of the data for different parties will be all mixed up!

Before we outline a possible fix to this problem, lets discuss...