{"id":14650,"date":"2013-10-21T22:46:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2013\/10\/21\/create-android-apps-with-app-inventor\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:04:16","slug":"create-android-apps-with-app-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2013\/10\/21\/create-android-apps-with-app-inventor\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Android apps with App Inventor"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/appinventor.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AppInventor<\/a> is a free software for Windows, Mac e Linux  and works with Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer 7+ browsers.<br \/>\nIt requires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.java.com\/it\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Java<\/a> installed and allows to create native Android apps, so in APK format without programming knowledges.<\/p>\n<p>In the web site you can find the instructions for all 3 OS. About Windows, once downloaded and installed you can find it in the path programsAppinventorcommands-for-Appinventor.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t need to open it, these files just works as support tools for browser and Java application.<\/p>\n<p>Within the Google account you can access the <a href=\"http:\/\/appinventor.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT App Inventor Beta<\/a>, you can start here to create your own projects.<\/p>\n<p>It has a built in emulator and you must have drivers correcly installed and configured for your Android device.<\/p>\n<p>You can create applications visually and in an easy way. There are 4 panels: Palette, Viewer, Component, Properties.<br \/>\nThere is also Blocks Editor that allows to combine the various elements and associate actions (if you aren&#8217;t able to open you must associate .jnlp extension with Java Web Start, you can find it in ProgramsJavajre7binjavaws.exe).<br \/>\nYou can test your apps anytime with the Emulator and the projects can be saved at any moment.<br \/>\nOnce finished you can download the APK ready and, in a next step, also publish it inPlay Store.<\/p>\n<p>AppInventor is a basic software but offers various tools to create apps, in the web site you can find docs, tutorials, forums and resources that helps to understand how powerful is the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>AppInventor is a free software for Windows, Mac e Linux and works with Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer 7+ browsers. It requires Java installed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3481,3484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-en","category-software-en"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/mobile-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mobile<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/software-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Software<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mobile<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Software<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 13 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 21, 2013","modified":"Updated on October 2, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 21, 2013 10:46 pm","modified":"Updated on October 2, 2018 5:04 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}