App Inventor

Developed at Google Labs – Donated to MIT with a grant to fund Center for Mobile Learning

Open Sourced: http://code.google.com/p/app-inventor-releases/

What is App Inventor: http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/what-is-app-inventor

2 parts – 1 in browser app designer (google app engine) – 1 blocks editor where you program (amazon build server)

Our own instance: http://nyuadmobilemedia.appspot.com/

Setup

First we have to setup the machine:  http://nyuadmobilemedia.appspot.com/learn/

http://nyuadmobilemedia.appspot.com/learn/setup/index.html

Hello World

We’ll interactively go through a Hello World example