As I've mentioned before, it's still early days in the development of App Inventor with updates (we get them automatically, remember) happening about once a month. The previous update—released on June 1, 2011—we covered in Chapter 5,Apps That Communicate
July 21, 2011—we got an update (dated as the July 20, 2011 build). This one has a couple of things many of us App inventors have been yearning for—the Webviewer component and the ability to use the Post method in the Web component. Let's take a quick look at both of those and the other changes in AI before we start creating Apps that know where they are.
As you recall, at the beginning of Chapter 7, Apps That Surf the Web, we built an eBay link app—that is, an app that does nothing other than use ActivityStarter to open a website. My eBay app now has over 4,000 downloads from Market, so many people seem to be finding it useful.
This technique works well and, if you choose a site already formatted...