Mission complete. I've successfully created a QR code and installed the app on my android phone. I've used a photo of my own cat so it's clearly my own app. I even tried to record her purring, but sadly it wasn't loud enough.
Anyway, I'm rather pleased with my efforts so far, but will need to dig into further tutorials to take it any further.
Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts
Friday, 22 July 2011
App Inventor Phase 2 / 3
Ok, so the next phase is to install app inventor software on my machine. 90Mb of download (my ISP won't like that), but it's a necessary evil.
Being a bit wary of working directly onto my phone, I've decided to start by using the emulator.
Phase 2 complete.
Phase 3 - so I worked through the Kitty tutorial and it worked :D The tutorial was excellent, but I did use the emulator and I think I ought to be brave enough to create it on my own phone.
My next plan is to use a photo of my own cat instead, so that it's personal, and then I'll do the last bit and actually add it to my phone, so that I can show it off to everyone. App designing here I come!!!
Being a bit wary of working directly onto my phone, I've decided to start by using the emulator.
Phase 2 complete.
Phase 3 - so I worked through the Kitty tutorial and it worked :D The tutorial was excellent, but I did use the emulator and I think I ought to be brave enough to create it on my own phone.
My next plan is to use a photo of my own cat instead, so that it's personal, and then I'll do the last bit and actually add it to my phone, so that I can show it off to everyone. App designing here I come!!!
App Inventor
A colleague of mine is creating a Moodle site for a course on developing mobile apps, and is looking for interested people to get involved. Not being adverse to a bit of programming, I thought I might have a look. Initially, I think the idea is to get started with app development, and to record progress as it happens.
Today, I have gone to App Inventor for Android and made a start on the set up process ready to begin playing.
Step 1 Remove old versions of Java...
After an online test, it appears I've got rather a lot of old versions of Java and Runtime, so I'm firstly removing all the old versions (a little bit tedious but should free up a lot of space and make things a bit more stable).
Step 2 Installing up to date version...
This caused me a bit of grief - no idea why really, but that darned little Java applet wouldn't show, so did a second install of the latest version, and now it's working fine.
Step 3 Testing Java for App Inventor
Carried out the simple (well, it was for me!!) notepad.jnlp test as talked through by the App Inventor set up pages, and it worked perfectly.
That's all I've got time for now, seems I'm good to go....
Today, I have gone to App Inventor for Android and made a start on the set up process ready to begin playing.
Step 1 Remove old versions of Java...
After an online test, it appears I've got rather a lot of old versions of Java and Runtime, so I'm firstly removing all the old versions (a little bit tedious but should free up a lot of space and make things a bit more stable).
Step 2 Installing up to date version...
This caused me a bit of grief - no idea why really, but that darned little Java applet wouldn't show, so did a second install of the latest version, and now it's working fine.
Step 3 Testing Java for App Inventor
Carried out the simple (well, it was for me!!) notepad.jnlp test as talked through by the App Inventor set up pages, and it worked perfectly.
That's all I've got time for now, seems I'm good to go....
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