Thursday, March 1, 2012

BOF session: Teaching with App Inventor for Android

Presenter: Jeff Gray, Univ. of Alabama

App Inventor for Android is a visual blocks language for building mobile apps. Like Scratch, the language’s drag-and-drop blocks interface significantly lowers the barrier to entry. Beginners can immediately build apps that interface with mobile technology (e.g., GPS, Text-to-speech, SMS Texting) and build apps that have a real-world impact. App Inventor has moved to MIT Center for Mobile Learning from Google.

I have used it myself, it took me 30 minutes to create an example app. I did it when it was still hosted at Google App Inventor website.

New link of App Inventor
http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/  This has a lot of useful resources to teach from middle school students to Master level students.

There is a book App Inventor: Create Your Own Android Apps available for sale at amazon.com .

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