

The link for the “Gallery” is at the top of the page on the right. When you are creating an app, you can also access a “Gallery” of apps which other people have written (just like Scratch).

The App Inventor application (you will need a Google account to log in).With the help of this companion guide chock-full of colorful graphics. Tutorials for apps you can build (you can filter the list of apps based on the features they use) App Inventor, a free and revolutionary online program from MIT, lets you do just that.To do this you will need to install the free AI2 Companion app from the Google Play store. You can even send and receive SMS messages and read and write NFC tags (if your phone supports this).Ī really nice feature of App Inventor is that you can connect to your phone while you are developing an app and you can see it working and the effect of changes to the design/code in real time. The site is claiming over 4 million registered users and over 12 million apps having been built!Īpps developed using App Inventor can use most of the functionality of the device including the camera, GPS, and the accelerometer.

