App Inventor Goes Open Source with MIT | Widgets Lab

MIT Center for Mobile Learning is now live! They took over App Inventor from Google. Fun time!!!  Click: http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/developers-blogs/hal

App Inventor Goes Open Source with MIT | Widgets Lab

Google App Inventor - CodeProject

Introduction to Article

AppInventor is developed by Google for creating applications for Android OS.
Its quite similar to “Scratch” as it also uses the concept of drag and drop and connecting blocks for making an application work. This application is aimed at people who are not familiar with program language.
According to Google, “A sixth grade student can also build Android apps using the AppInventor.”
The applications developed from app inventor can be tested on an emulator or a phone. If all goes well, we can package the app to the phone and use it.

Google App Inventor - CodeProject

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Eureka! Web-based Images in App Inventor Apps

I've been having a big problem getting web-based images to show up Goggle App Inventor apps. I've been capturing the pictures urls correctly from RSS feeds. I found out that the issue was that the string was coming out in quotes. When the blocks get the the urls from Python they have quotes around it. If I strip the quotes off the string, the images display great in the app. Whew! Only took 2 months to figure that out!!!!

Flickr Image Explorer Demo - App Inventor Coffee Shop | Google Groups

Image via CrunchBaseHere is a forum discussion about how to make a Flickr Image explorer using App Inventor for Android.

Flickr Image Explorer Demo - App Inventor Coffee Shop | Google Groups