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Wi>Android Apps with App Inventor provides hands-on walkthroughs that cover every area of App Inventor development, including the Google and MIT versions of App Inventor.
Kloss begins with the absolute basics of program structure, syntax, flow, and function, and then demonstrates simple ways to solve today’s most common mobile development problems. Along the way, you’ll build a dozen real Android apps, from games and geotrackers to navigation systems and news tickers. By the time you’re done, you’ll be comfortable implementing advanced apps and mashups integrating realtime multimedia data from all kinds of Web services with the communication and sensor-based features of your smartphone.
Topics covered include
- Installing and configuring App Inventor
- Building modern, attractive mobile user interfaces
- Controlling Android media hardware, including the camera
- Saving data locally with TinyDB, or in the cloud with TinyWebDB
- Streamlining and automating phone, text, and email communications
- Tracking orientation, acceleration, and geoposition
- Integrating text-to-speech and speech-to-text in your apps
- Controlling other apps and Web services with ActivityStarter
- Building mobile mashups by exchanging data with Web APIs
- Testing your apps for diverse hardware with the Android Emulator
- Example apps, including multimedia center, online vocabulary trainer, finger painting, squash game, compass, geocacher, navigator, stock market ticker, and many more
This book will empower you to explore, experiment, build your skills and confidence, and start writing professional-quality Android apps—for yourself, and for everyone else!
Companion files for this title can be found at informit.com/title/9780321812704
著者について
Jörg H. Kloss has been actively involved with innovative information and communication technology for many years, and has developed Android applications with App Inventor since it was still in early closed beta. Kloss has developed 3D online information systems, and worked at Fraunhofer IAO’s VRLab. He is the author of X3D: Programming Interactive 3D Applications for the Internet, published in German (Addison-Wesley, 2010), and is currently working on mobile augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, and contextual services.
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Build Android apps without knowing any Java!
2012/4/10
形式:ペーパーバック
I've spent the last couple weeks working my way through Android Apps with App Inventor by Jörg H. Kloss. My background is in iOS development and I knew absolutely NO Java and had spent little time even using an android device. The first couple chapters walk you through getting things set up with App Inventor. Once you have that done you jump right into building your first app which could not have been easier using the App Inventor site. Each consecutive chapter builds on what you have learned previously and within a few chapters you're actually building some fairly involved apps. Some of the topics in the book include working with media, hardware (like camera), cloud, text, geoposition, text-to-speech, web integration, and much more. Bottom line, this book will give you a great start to building Android apps and you will be surprised just how far you can go even with no previous programming knowledge. As a side note, the "building block" approach used in App Inventor gives a great foundation for beginning programmers. Working with, and understanding how App Inventor functions will make the learning process considerably easier for new developers that decide to take the next step and actually learn a programming language, especially an object oriented language. I definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants to get a quick start on building Android Apps, and does not have experience with Java, Eclipse, and of course the Android SDK.
2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Great for Beginners!
2012/4/18
形式:ペーパーバック
This book is great for people just learning App Inventor. It's pretty detailed and laid out in an easy to understand manner.
An impressive, essential guide to App Inventor
2012/5/29
形式:ペーパーバック
In just 4 weeks, I've gone from knowing nothing about mobile development to creating an Android app which I've just released on Google Play. It's a testament to both the power of App Inventor and the usefulness of this book.
Kloss takes you step-by-step through a series of real world app projects, each dealing with the different components and block structure that make up App Inventor. The projects themselves have been carefully chosen to take you through App Inventor development both conceptually and practically. You learn not only how components like TinyDB and ActivityStarter work, but how databases can be used in your app and good development practices. The projects themselves increase in complexity and breadth, so by the end of the book you have a true grasp of the possibilities and capabilities of App Inventor.
The inclusion of the source files for each project is also invaluable. It allows you to follow the explanation in the book without having to recreate the projects from scratch yourself - with the inevitable confusion and mistakes when you're starting something new.
My only niggle is I would have liked to have seen more information on how to deal with developing using a (currently) beta platform. Kloss does cover testing and debugging - and points to more sophisticated debugging resources. However, I found that even some fundamental aspects of App Inventor - like simply putting a background picture in a canvas - resulted in App Inventor crashing. It took using the Android SDK debugging tool to find a workaround. For novices who are inspired to build their own apps this could prove frustrating, and more forewarning and suggested approaches would have been helpful.
This is a relatively small omission in an otherwise impressive book. The absence of any comprehensive official user guide for App Inventor (there are only cursory explanations of many components and features on the offical site), makes a book like Android Apps with App Inventor absolutely essential if you're seeking to build an app using App Inventor.
If you'd like to see what can be produced in 4 weeks from scratch using App Inventor, check out kutekittyapp.com
Kloss takes you step-by-step through a series of real world app projects, each dealing with the different components and block structure that make up App Inventor. The projects themselves have been carefully chosen to take you through App Inventor development both conceptually and practically. You learn not only how components like TinyDB and ActivityStarter work, but how databases can be used in your app and good development practices. The projects themselves increase in complexity and breadth, so by the end of the book you have a true grasp of the possibilities and capabilities of App Inventor.
The inclusion of the source files for each project is also invaluable. It allows you to follow the explanation in the book without having to recreate the projects from scratch yourself - with the inevitable confusion and mistakes when you're starting something new.
My only niggle is I would have liked to have seen more information on how to deal with developing using a (currently) beta platform. Kloss does cover testing and debugging - and points to more sophisticated debugging resources. However, I found that even some fundamental aspects of App Inventor - like simply putting a background picture in a canvas - resulted in App Inventor crashing. It took using the Android SDK debugging tool to find a workaround. For novices who are inspired to build their own apps this could prove frustrating, and more forewarning and suggested approaches would have been helpful.
This is a relatively small omission in an otherwise impressive book. The absence of any comprehensive official user guide for App Inventor (there are only cursory explanations of many components and features on the offical site), makes a book like Android Apps with App Inventor absolutely essential if you're seeking to build an app using App Inventor.
If you'd like to see what can be produced in 4 weeks from scratch using App Inventor, check out kutekittyapp.com
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