App Inventor for Android: Build Your Own Apps — No Experience Required!

App Inventor for Android

Table of Contents

Introduction

Who This Book Is For

Part I: Getting Up and Running with Google App Inventor

Part II: Designing Your Own Apps: Step-by-Step Guides

Part III: Reference and Appendixes

Downloadable Project Files and Bonus Content

About This Book

Part I

Chapter 1: Building Your First App While Exploring the Interface

Starting a New Project

Getting Familiar with Design View

The Palette column

The Viewer column

The Components column

Media column

The Properties column

Adding Components to Your New Project

Adding a Button component

Adding a Label component

Adding an Image component

Adding a Sound component

Renaming the Screen component

Renaming the Image component

Renaming the Label component

Renaming the Button component

Renaming the Sound component

Adding sound for the Sound component

Adding images for the Image component

Understanding properties

Setting Image component properties

Setting Label component properties

Setting Button component properties

Setting Sound component properties

Introducing the Blocks Editor

Previewing Built-in Blocks

Placing Your Button Component Blocks

Placing Your Sound Component Blocks

Putting the final touches on your project

Saving your new application

The Save As button

The Checkpoint button

Packaging your app

Managing Your Projects

Downloading your project source code

Uploading your project source code

Deleting a project

Loading an existing project

Chapter 2: Programming and Design Fundamentals

Clarifying Your Design ...