{"id":833,"date":"2015-08-14T14:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T21:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T21:54:45","slug":"app-inventor-to-add-responsive-design-features-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/08\/14\/app-inventor-to-add-responsive-design-features-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"App Inventor to add &#8220;Responsive Design&#8221; features next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c1\"><em>MIT App Inventor upgrade coming next Monday<\/em> &#8211; the upgrade will support apps running on devices with different size screens, such as a smart phone versus a tablet.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"c1\">There\u2019s one important rule when using App Inventor to create apps with responsive design:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1 c9\"><span class=\"c13\">Specify widths and heights of components as percentages of the screen width and height, rather than as fixed numbers of pixels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">For example, to make a button whose width is half the screen width, set the button\u2019s width to be 50 percent rather than setting it to a specific number of pixels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c1\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/ai2-test.appinventor.mit.edu\/reference\/other\/responsiveDesign.html\">Responsive Design in App Inventor<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Please see the link for details on this upcoming change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Apps written in Java and the Android SDK have access to additional methods of creating flexible design layouts, or even multiple layouts, for different screen sizes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT App Inventor upgrade coming next Monday &#8211; the upgrade will support apps running on devices with different size screens, such as a smart phone versus a tablet. There\u2019s one important rule when using App Inventor to create apps with responsive design: Specify widths and heights of components as percentages of the screen width and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2015\/08\/14\/app-inventor-to-add-responsive-design-features-next-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">App Inventor to add &#8220;Responsive Design&#8221; features next week<\/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":[3,5,6],"tags":[19,22,28,31,116,151,157,162,176],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-inventor-news","category-components","category-documentation","tag-android","tag-app-inventor","tag-appinventor","tag-apps","tag-layouts","tag-programming","tag-responsive-design","tag-screen","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}