My First Android App

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September 27th, 2010 androidoholic Leave a comment Go to comments

It’s taken me a whilst to find the time to unequivocally try Google App Inventor, Google’s program that allows non-programmers to simply emanate personal applications and try programming concepts using their Android devices. As it turns out, we needn’t have disturbed about “finding the time” – It’s in few instances swift and easy, but provides critical insights in to the middle workings of Android for any person only getting started. As an informative tool, it’s a contingency for rudimentary programming courses. Here’s a walkthrough of the experience, together with a art studio from the routine .

First, though, for any person unknown with App Inventor, here is a short YouTube shave display how a of the e.g. applications was created:

App Inventor is sincerely well documented with examples and tutorials , help files, and a residents forum (in the form of a Google Group ). It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X and only requires Java and an Android device. we used the instructions to set up my P.C. and phone, and then only jumped in. Could we figure out how to emanate a working Android app without the manual, tutorials, etc? Only a way to find out.

My initial objective was to emanate a elementary app that would let me select that of my preferred ZDNet blogs we longed for to launch. we chose a basic list picker (the dignified homogeneous of a tumble down in Android) and got to work.

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