Mark Sherman

Learning MIT App Inventor: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your Own Android Apps Mark Sherman 1e uitgave

With MIT's App Inventor 2, anyone can build complete, working Android apps -- without writing code! This is a complete tutorial that will help you make the most of App Inventor 2, even if you have absolutely no programming experience. Unlike books focused on the obsolete Google version, Learning MIT App Inventor is written from the ground up for today's dramatically improved MIT version of App Inventor. Step by step, mobile expert and instructional specialist Derek Walter guides you through every App Inventor 2 task and feature in plain, simple English.

You'll learn through hands-on projects that help you use features ranging from GPS to media and animation. Walter walks you through building high-quality app user interfaces, making them function using the drag-and-drop Blocks Editor, and testing them with App Inventor's emulator. (You won't even need to own an Android device!) You'll master high-quality design and development techniques you can build on if you ever do want to write code. Then, building on everything you've learned, you'll create a capstone app project of surprising power and sophistication!

This book covers:

• Walkthroughs of apps you can build right from within MIT App Inventor
• Step-by-step instructions for a wide variety of apps
• An overview of core computer science principles
• An introduction to the main features of a mobile operating system