Mobile Development, Day 5
Hopper section: Friday, March 27, Lovelace section: Monday, April xx.
Hopper section: Friday, March 27, Lovelace section: Monday, April xx.
Plan for the Day
Plan for the Day
- Opening circle
- Calendar review
- Discussion: Open Source
- Level 1
- Review publishing logistics
- Building an .apk file
- Exporting the source code (.aia file)
- Publish your 8-Ball projects to the Newton GWC site.
- Build a new project!
- Dream up a cool Android app
- Sketch out the screens and their appearance
- Identify the major functionality and components needed
- Run your idea by an instructor
- Start building.
- Try one of these if you have trouble coming up with an idea:
- Share text and/or files from your app to GMail, Twitter, etc.
- Collect your friends addresses and plot them all on a map
- Where's my car? Click when you park, find on a map later
- Arcade game: Space Attack, Whack-a-Mole, Mars Rover lander.
- Shared take-out order creation -- great for a party.
- Check on my stocks: create a portfolio, get real-time values for it.
- Dance plotter: put the tablet on the floor, dance around, see a trace of your steps
- Metronome: count out beats, emphasize a down-beat, adjust the tempo
- Ear trainer: Play out notes or chords, ask the user to identify them.
- Level 2
- Continue work in the Mobile QuizApp
- If you finish, start working on an AppInventor QuizApp
- Sharing time - 5 project presentations from students who will miss April 3.
- Show the app in action
- Display the code that implements it.
- Call out the two most important blocks.
- Closing circle
More AppInventor resources
More AppInventor resources
- Visit the AppInventor Development Studio
- See the Technology Links page for system tours, connection help, descriptions of blocks, recipes, and app ideas.