Chapter 14. From idea to app

Now that you have the skills and knowledge of an App Inventor, we’ll look at how you can turn your ideas into fully working apps. This is a process, and the finished app may be different from what you first imagined—and that’s OK! Almost all the apps in this book started out as slightly different ideas on paper: as we worked them through, we changed the way they looked or functioned. Sometimes App Inventor worked in a way we hadn’t thought of and had us really scratching our heads. On the flip side, we also often discovered a great smartphone feature that we went on to add to an app.

So far, you’ve built apps that ...

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