App Inventor 2: Introduction: Step-by-step Guide to easy Android app programming (Pevest Guides to App Inventor Book 1)

MIT App Inventor 2 is the fast and easy way to create custom Android apps for smart phones or tablets. This guide introduces the basic App Inventor features - you can create your first simple app in about an hour, and understand the basic components of App Inventor in a full day. App Inventor 2 is free to use and you can use it for commercial applications too.

App Inventor 2: Introduction is targeted at adult learners (high school and up) and shows how to design your app’s user interface with “drag and drop” interface controls to layout your app’s screen design. Then implement the app’s behavior with unique “drag and drop” programming blocks to quickly assemble the program in a graphical interface.

This tutorial covers the basics of the App Inventor user interface Designer and the Blocks programming editor, plus basic “blocks” programming concepts and tools for arithmetic, text processing, event handling, lists and other features.

A subsequent volume if this tutorial series will cover multimedia, use of the smart phone camera, databases, sensors, preparing apps for sale in the Google Play store and more. The next volume is presently in development. Updates and additional tutorials are available on the book's web site at http://appinventor.pevest.com

About the Author
Edward Mitchell has worked in software development, project and program management in companies from Silicon Valley to Microsoft Corporation. He has taught management and computer information systems courses at Gonzaga University and at a community college. He earned a B.S. in information and computer science from the University of California, an M.B.A. from Gonzaga University (2001), and an M.S. in software engineering from Regis University (2012). His interests include methods of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of software development including better tools (like App Inventor), software development and organizational process improvements that can lead to building the right solutions, faster and more reliably, and teaching others about software development concepts. In addition to this guide, he has written about a dozen books on technical subjects and has interests spanning 3D still and video photography to flying a hovercraft.

Please visit the book’s web http://appinventor.pevest.com for updated content, tutorials and links to more information.

E-Books in this Series:
•App Inventor 2 Introduction, Volume 1.
•App Inventor 2 Advanced Concepts, Volume 2
•App Inventor 2 Databases and Files, Volume 3

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• App Inventor 2 Graphics, Animation and Charts
• Arduino and Android using MIT app inventor 2.0: Learn in a day (book for everyone from children to adults)
• App Inventor 2: Create Your Own Android Apps
• CREATE YOUR OWN APP: WITH APP INVENTOR 2
• Learning MIT App Inventor: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your Own Android Apps
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