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Create Android apps with App Inventor [Video]

By : Brandan Jones
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Create Android apps with App Inventor [Video]

By: Brandan Jones

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">AppInventor enables the democratization of information technology. You no longer have to be a programmer with years of experience to create your own Android app. All you need is a good idea, a browser, and some simple software for your own Android device or computer to create an app. </span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">In this course, we’ll walk through creating an app step-by-step. We discuss the user interface components: sequence, selection, and iteration, parsing simple text, performing computations, and more. </span></p> <h2><span class="sugar_field">Style and Approach</span></h2> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="trade_selling_points_c" class="sugar_field">In this video, you’ll learn to use AppInventor by creating a sample app, following step-by-step instructions.</span></span></p>

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Create Android apps with App Inventor [Video]
Brandan Jones
May, 2017 | 6 hours
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Table of Contents (7 chapters)
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1
Getting to Know the App Inventor
The Course Overview
Why App Development?
Why Use App Inventor?
What Is an IDE?
Introduction to Web-Based IDE
Installing the Emulator
2
Getting Started with App Inventor
Sequence, Selection, and Iteration
Variables
Changing Screen Background Color
Save Project Source and Generate APK
Deploying your App on the Google Play Store
3
Decisions and Iteration
Variable Type – List
Iteration
If Tests
Procedures
Advanced Procedures
4
Advanced App Inventor
Audio
Create an Image for a Button
Add Image to a Button
Invoke the Camera
5
User Interactions with App Inventor
Mobile Usability Case Study
Layouts
Call One Screen from Another
Pass Data between Screens
6
Advanced UI Movements and Graphics
Example Concept – Learn Chemistry
Advanced Layouts
Using Ball and Canvas
Detect Collision Events
7
Storage
Saving Data in TinyDB
Select a Random Item from TinyDB
Compare Lists
Firebase
Chapter 7
Storage
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Saving Data in TinyDB
TinyDB allows us to store data in a name:value pair format. The name, which is called a Tag in TinyDB, has to be unique, and the value can be nearly anything: text, a number, or a list. If you’ve programmed before, you may be familiar with this concept, often called a HashTable or HashMap. - Cautions about using TinyDB - Create a TinyDB instance - Store molecules by name, and their atom compositions as a list, in TinyDB
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