Description
MIT App Inventor is an educational tool for learning computational thinking and principles of computational action by creating mobile applications.
Application in education
Using a block-based programming language, design and code your own projects, or use one of the many books and curricula to learn about coding. This version of App Inventor includes more than 60 components, from user interface elements like buttons and switches, to sensors, connectivity, and multimedia components so your projects can interact with the world.
Functionalities
- Design and Innovation Processes: Mock Ups
- Working with XML and Web services
- Using App Inventor extensions to implement multitouch: Scale Detector
- Using App Inventor extensions to implement multitouch: Rotation Detector
- Brief introduction to cloud data and the Firebase component (replaced by CloudDB in 2019)
- Project merger tool
Advantages
- Useful for inexperienced programmers using blocks methodology,