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

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Автор: Tyler Jason

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

Издательство: John Wilеу & Sons

Год: 2011

Формат: pdf

Язык: английский

Размер: 13 Мб

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With this complete guide, you'll soon be creating apps that incorporate all of the Android smartphone's fun features, such as the accelerometer, GPS, messaging, and more.

Even with limited programming experience, you can easily learn to create apps for the Android platform with this complete guide to App Inventor for Android. App Inventor for Android is a visual language that relies on simple programming blocks that users can drag and drop to create apps. This handy book gives you a series of fully worked-out apps, complete with their programming blocks, which you can customize for your own use or use as a starting point for creating the next killer app. And it's all without writing a single line of code. Don't miss the book's special section on Apps Inventor Design Patterns, which explains computer terms in simple terms and is an invaluable basic reference.

Teaches programmers and non-programmers alike how to use App Inventor for Android to create Android apps

Provides a series of fully worked-out apps that you can customize, download, and use on your Android phone or use as a starting point for building the next great app

Includes a valuable reference section on App Inventor Design Patterns and general computer science concepts

Shows you how to create apps that take advantage of the Android smartphone?s handy features, such as GPS, messaging, contacts, and more.

Contents:

Introduction

Building Your First App While Exploring the Interface

Starting a New Project

Getting Familiar with Design View

Adding Components to Your New Project

Keeping your project neat

Introducing the Blocks Editor

Previewing Built-in Blocks

Placing Your Button Component Blocks

Placing Your Sound Component Blocks

Managing Your Projects

Peeking inside the ZIP file

Programming and Design Fundamentals

Clarifying Your Design Idea

Getting Primitive with Your Design

Starting Easy, Getting More Complex

Mastering the Fundamentals of Programming Terminology

SounDroid: Creating anAndroid Sound Machine

Creating SounDroid 2.0

Getting Started on SounDroid 2.0

Expanding the SounDroid Project: SounDroid 3.0

Getting Started on SounDroid 3.0

OrderDroid: A Maintainable Mobile Commerce App

Creating the OrderDroid Application

Getting Started on OrderDroid 1.0

Adding New Components to OrderDroid 1.0

Creating OrderDroid 2.0

Getting Started on OrderDroid 2.0

AndroidDown: A Location-Aware Panic Button

Creating the AndroidDown Application

Getting Started on AndroidDown 1.0

Making the most of typeblocking

Creating AndroidDown 2.0

Getting Started on AndroidDown 2.0

AlphaDroid: An Alphabet Tracing Game

Creating AlphaDroid 1.0

Getting Started on AlphaDroid 1.0

Creating AlphaDroid 2.0

Beginning AlphaDroid 2.0

PunchDroid: An Android Punch Bug Game

Creating the PunchDroid Application

Getting Started on the PunchDroid Application

Installing the PunchDroid Application

Collection Assistant: A Barcode and Database Application

Creating Collection Assistant 1.0

Getting Started on Collection Assistant 1.0

Creating Collection Assistant 2.0

Getting Started on Collection Assistant 2.0

Challenging Yourself

BlueChat: A Bluetooth Chat Client

Creating the BlueChat Application

Getting Started on BlueChat

Challenging Yourself

TwiTorial: A Twitter Application

Creating the TwiTorial Application

Getting Started on TwiTorial

Blocks and Component Reference

Built-In Blocks

My Blocks

Appendix A: Setting Up Your Phone and Computer

Setting Up Your Phone

Testing Java Web Start

Installing the App Inventor Extras

Working with ADB (Android Debug Bridge)

Adapting to Special Circumstances

Working with the Android Emulator

Exploring the Android SDK and Other Emulator Options

Troubleshooting Your Phone's Connection

Appendix B: Creating Your Own TinyWebDB

Setting Up Your Google App Engine

Customizing and Installing the TinyWebDB Service

Index

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