{"id":798,"date":"2015-06-27T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T02:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:02:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T02:02:40","slug":"app-inventor-2-tutorial-volume-2-is-now-available-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/06\/27\/app-inventor-2-tutorial-volume-2-is-now-available-at-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"App Inventor 2 Tutorial Volume 2 is now available at Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=commonsensevi-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B010ITAXYU&amp;asins=B010ITAXYU&amp;linkId=FBOQVBR2G3ERYS66&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Volume 2 of the App Inventor 2 Tutorial<\/strong><\/em> is now available at Amazon as an e-book via this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B010ITAXYU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B010ITAXYU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=commonsensevi-20&amp;linkId=THWH4KTB77GSLDUN\">App Inventor 2 Tutorial Volume 2: Step-by-step: Advanced features including TinyDB<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=commonsensevi-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B010ITAXYU\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. \u00a0The e-book will also be available from Google Play shortly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MIT App Inventor 2 is a fast and simple way to create custom Android apps for smart phones or tablets. Volume 2 in the series introduces debugging methods, explains additional controls not covered in Volume 1, introduces \u201cagile\u201d methods for developing a real world app, and provides sample code for using the TinyDB database.<\/p>\n<p>The App Inventor 2 Tutorial series is targeted at adult learners (high school and up). App Inventor 2 provides a simplified \u201cdrag and drop\u201d interface to layout your app\u2019s screen design. Then implement the app\u2019s behavior with \u201cdrag and drop\u201d programming blocks to quickly assemble a program in a graphical interface.<\/p>\n<p>Volume 1 of this series covered the basics of the App Inventor user interface Designer and the Blocks programming editor, plus basic \u201cblocks\u201d programming concepts and tools for arithmetic, text processing, event handling, lists and other features. Volume 2 builds upon Volume 1 to provide tips on debugging programs when the apps work incorrectly, how to use hidden editing features, and how to install your own apps on to your phone or tablet for general use. Code samples are provided for using the Notifier component for general use or for debugging, for user interface control tricks such as buttons that change color continuously or implementing the missing \u201cradio buttons\u201d component, using ListPicker and Spinner for list selections, and using the WebViewer to display web pages in your app. The book includes a large section on designing and building a sample real world application and finishes with a chapter on using the TinyDB database.<\/p>\n<p><em>For readers of the blog, Chapters 4&#8211;8 are based on the tutorial already presented here. Chapter 2 and Chapter 9 on TinyDB are all new material.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1 &#8211; App Inventor Tips<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2 &#8211; Debugging App Inventor Programs<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3 &#8211; User Interface Control Tricks<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4 &#8211; Designing and Building a Real World Application<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5 &#8211; Tip Calculator Version 2<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6 &#8211; Tip Calculator Version 3<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7 &#8211; Tip Calculator Version 4<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8 &#8211; Tip Calculator Version 5<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 9 \u2013 Using the TinyDB database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Volume 3 is now available &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/?page_id=33\">App Inventor 2 Databases and Files<\/a> adds substantially more information on TinyDB, plus TinyWebDB and Fusion Tables and includes the full introduction to TinyDB).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AppInventor_Volume2Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-795 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AppInventor_Volume2Cover-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"AppInventor_Volume2Cover\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 2 of the App Inventor 2 Tutorial is now available at Amazon as an e-book via this link:\u00a0App Inventor 2 Tutorial Volume 2: Step-by-step: Advanced features including TinyDB. \u00a0The e-book will also be available from Google Play shortly. Description MIT App Inventor 2 is a fast and simple way to create custom Android apps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/06\/27\/app-inventor-2-tutorial-volume-2-is-now-available-at-amazon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">App Inventor 2 Tutorial Volume 2 is now available at Amazon<\/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":[6,7,9,12],"tags":[19,22,26,28,31,130,132,151,170,171,172,176,189,190],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","category-general","category-products","category-stem-education","tag-android","tag-app-inventor","tag-app-software","tag-appinventor","tag-apps","tag-mit-app-inventor","tag-mobile","tag-programming","tag-smart-phone","tag-smart-phones","tag-smartphone","tag-software","tag-tablet","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}