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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
Content Locked
Section 4
Firebase
“The cloud”. What is it? How can it help us create our apps? We can use the cloud to synchronize data across our own hardware. More importantly, we can use the cloud to harvest knowledge around the world, centralize it in one location, and then synchronize it to our devices. App InventorTM now allows us to store data in the cloud, using a Firebase database. Without a doubt, this is a game changer for AndroidTM apps created in App InventorTM. - Learn what Firebase is and how to setup a Firebase data source - Add FireBase support to our Learning Chemistry game, so that we can save to the cloud - Watch data update on FireBase from our app nearly instantaneously
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