{"id":163,"date":"2014-10-16T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2014-10-16T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T10:03:00","slug":"using-lists-in-app-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2014\/10\/16\/using-lists-in-app-inventor\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Lists in App Inventor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frequent search topic on this blog is how to use lists. &#8220;Lists&#8221; are a way of storing a collection of data in App Inventor programs. Many other programming languages provide a number of methods for storing collections of data including arrays, records, even lists, and even something called &#8220;collections&#8221; (imagine that!)<\/p>\n<p>App Inventor provides <em>Lists<\/em>, plus you can also use components like the <em>TinyDB<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For a detailed description of using Lists, please refer to Chapter 8 &#8211; Introduction to Lists in my e-book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KCZ81I6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00KCZ81I6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=commonsensevi-20&amp;linkId=XFYYYJXNG32RKH4K\">&#8220;App Inventor 2: Tutorial&#8221;, available for $2.99 from Amazon<\/a>. I hope to make this text available in additional e-reader formats during November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frequent search topic on this blog is how to use lists. &#8220;Lists&#8221; are a way of storing a collection of data in App Inventor programs. Many other programming languages provide a number of methods for storing collections of data including arrays, records, even lists, and even something called &#8220;collections&#8221; (imagine that!) App Inventor provides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2014\/10\/16\/using-lists-in-app-inventor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using Lists in App Inventor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-components","category-documentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}