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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


In this chapter, we created a useful and fun app that you can use to conduct a digital raffle. We explored global and local variables along with many facets of the Texting Component to send and receive text messages. We also learned about some advanced blocks related to lists—selecting random list items, searching for an item on a list, and removing an item. Finally, we explored an important fundamental concept of programming—loops. We saw how loops enabled us to repeat behaviors (a stack of blocks) multiple times.

In the next chapter, we will provide some tips on expanding your mobile app development skills with designing hints and sharing options.