Android Apps with App Inventor: The Fast and Easy Way to Build Android Apps

Android Apps with App Inventor: The Fast and Easy Way to Build Android Apps

Wi>Android Apps with App Inventor</B> </I> provides hands-on walkthroughs that cover every area of App Inventor development, including the Google and MIT versions of App Inventor. <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">Kloss begins with the absolute basics of program structure, syntax, flow, and function, and then demonstrates simple ways to solve today’s most common mobile development problems. Along the way, you’ll build a dozen real Android apps, from games and geotrackers to navigation systems and news tickers. By the time you’re done, you’ll be comfortable implementing advanced apps and mashups integrating realtime multimedia data from all kinds of Web services with the communication and sensor-based features of your smartphone.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">Topics covered include</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> <LI>Installing and configuring App Inventor <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Building modern, attractive mobile user interfaces <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Controlling Android media hardware, including the camera <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Saving data locally with TinyDB, or in the cloud with TinyWebDB <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Streamlining and automating phone, text, and email communications <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Tracking orientation, acceleration, and geoposition <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Integrating text-to-speech and speech-to-text in your apps <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Controlling other apps and Web services with ActivityStarter <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Building mobile mashups by exchanging data with Web APIs <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Testing your apps for diverse hardware with the Android Emulator <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <LI>Example apps, including multimedia center, online vocabulary trainer, finger painting, squash game, compass, geocacher, navigator, stock market ticker, and many more <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">This book will empower you to explore, experiment, build your skills and confidence, and start writing professional-quality Android apps—for yourself, and for everyone else!</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">Companion files for this title can be found at informit.com/title/9780321812704</P>