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

by Jason Tyler

Overview

Google App Inventor for Android is the complete guide to App Inventor for Android, Google's new visual language for building mobile apps. With App Inventor, you program by piecing together blocks that represent the phone's functionality. Because it's like putting together a puzzle, even non-technical people can use App Inventor to create mobile apps. With App Inventor you don't need to write a single line of programming code, and can still create apps that take advantage of all of an Android smart phone's features including the accelerometer, GPS, messaging, contacts, the web and more.

This book provides you with a series of fully worked out apps that you can create, download and use on your Android phone. Best of all, the apps come with complete "source blocks", fully explained in easy to understand terms, which you can customize for your own use or use as a model for building the next "killer app". The sample apps are accompanied by a section on App Inventor Designs Patterns that serves as an invaluable reference and explains computer science concepts in simple terms. Google App Inventor for Android is the perfect companion for your app exploration, and will have you creating your own Android apps in no time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119991458
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/04/2011
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Jason Tyler is passionate about technology and people. Jason teaches technology professionally to help people achieve their goals using the power of technology. He plays with technology because he loves the empowerment that technology can bring, and also because he is attracted to anything shiny.

Jason is a lifetime student who considers a day wasted if he is not awed by something. His passion for technology has lead him to hold multiple certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, and ITIL. His passion for people led him to seek a B. A. in theology.

Jason is an avid and dedicated photographer, sailor, and gamer. Of all the things he is, Jason is proudest to be the husband of Rebecca and the father of Liam and Declan.

Table of Contents

About the Author.

Credits.

Author's Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I.

CHAPTER 1: Building Your First App While Exploring the Interface.

CHAPTER 2: Programming and Design Fundamentals.

Part II.

CHAPTER 3: SounDroid: Creating an Android Sound Machine.

CHAPTER 4: OrderDroid: A Maintainable Mobile Commerce App.

CHAPTER 5: AndroidDown: A Location-Aware Panic Button.

CHAPTER 6: AlphaDroid: An Alphabet Tracing Game.

CHAPTER 7: PunchDroid: An Android Punch Bug Game.

CHAPTER 8: Collection Assistant: A Barcode and Database Application.

CHAPTER 9: BlueChat: A Bluetooth Chat Client.

CHAPTER 10: TwiTorial: A Twitter Application.

Part III: Blocks and Component Reference.

APPENDIX A: Setting Up Your Phone and Computer.

APPENDIX B: Creating Your Own TinyWebDB.

BONUS CHAPTER: Sprite Interaction: A Physics Primer.

Index.