Today’s goals:
- Create the “Hello Purr” app with MIT’s App Inventor
- Follow an App Inventor tutorial of your choice OR create an app prototype
Today’s featured app:
- Not Hotdog– Yes, this is a real app
MIT’s App Inventor
- You will follow the basic Hello Purr tutorial in which you make an Android app that has a photo of a cat that, when tapped, makes a meow sound.
- Go here and click create apps at the top right
- Sign in with your Google account
- Follow this tutorial
- When you finish, test your app on my old Android phone
- Change up the app by adding a new image and a new sound (you can find tons of free sound files here)
- If you already did Hello Purr and modified it, you will pick a tutorial from this list to create another app. You can work on your own or with a partner. When you’re done, check out how your app works on the Android phone.
- Other option: design an app prototype. Go to fluidui.com and sign up for a free account. Then create a mobile wireframe of either an app you like (re-create it) or an app concept of your own.