Programming with 

App Inventor

What is App Inventor?

Live Demo

The "Hello World" of App Inventor

No Texting While Driving

Daniel Finnegan.English Major

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• Android version of successful SMS software

• Derivative used in 1000 person event in Helsinki

Carlie KraljInternational Relations Major

Why App Inventor Works

• Event-based

• No Syntax Errors

• Drag and drop, only some blocks plug-in

• High-level Android library built by Googlers

• Prototyping• Build Complete Apps• "Situated" apps• Personal apps

How you can use App Inventor

Trinity College -- CS 0 Coursehttp://turing.cs.trincoll.edu/~ram/cpsc110/

CPSC 110 Final Projects http://turing.cs.trincoll.edu/~ram/cpsc110/portfolios.html

Trinity College -- Tree Height Calculator http://notes.hfoss.org/index.php/TreeCalc

Commodity Tracker App for Haiti http://notes.hfoss.org/index.php/Haiti_Commodity_Collector

Rainfall Tracker App for Haiti http://notes.hfoss.org/index.php/Rain_Check

Wellesley College

Courses

• CS114 Socio-Techno Web (Fall 2009)

• CS249 Web Mashups (Spring 2011)

• CS117 Inventing Mobile Apps (Fall 2011)

Highlights

• No limits for imagination

• Students for Students

• Let's try to vote!

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Apps for students by students

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Apps for our local community (cont)