App inventor 2 : create your own Android apps /

Wolber, David,

App inventor 2 : create your own Android apps / David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, and Liz Looney. - Second edition. - xxi, 334 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index. "Learn to build apps in the fastest way possible"--Cover.

HelloPurr -- PaintPot -- MoleMash -- No texting while driving -- Ladybug chase -- Paris map tour -- Android, where's my car? -- Presidents quiz -- Xylophone -- MakeQuiz and TakeQuiz -- Broadcast hub -- Robot Remote -- Amazon at the Bookstore -- Understanding an app's architecture -- Engineering and debugging an app -- Programming your app's memory -- Creating animated apps -- Programming your app to make decisions : conditional blocks -- Programming lists of data -- Repeating blocks -- Defining procedures and reusing blocks -- Working with databases -- Reading and responding to sensors -- Communicating with the Web.

Provides information on how to create apps for Android devices using the App Inventor 2, with step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects, including a text answering machine app and a quiz app.

9781491906842


Application software--Design.
Android (Electronic resource)
Mobile computing.

QA76.8.D76 / W65 2015

005.268 WO.A 2014