Chapter 3. Navigating the App Inventor Platform

Now that you have created a new project and set up connectivity, you are ready to begin learning how to make mobile apps! This chapter will provide a step-by-step guide to navigate the App Inventor web application through the process of building a game app called Fling. You will be using:

  • The Projects View
  • The Designer (a graphical user interface)
    • Palette
    • Viewer
    • Components
    • Properties
  • The Blocks Editor (a visual programming language)
  • The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

The projects view

In Chapter 2, Setting Up MIT App Inventor 2, you logged into App Inventor for the first time, created a new project, and named it, so at the moment, you only have one App Inventor project. Once you start building more ...

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