1. www.greenITcenter.org DUE 0903239 Introduction to the Android Platform Working Connections 2011

2. www.greenITcenter.org Android Introduction Android is a mobile phone Operating System Competes with Apple’s iOS for iPhone and Windows Mobile Based on Linux 2

3. www.greenITcenter.org Android Supports 3 Multitasking Videocalling WebKit browser GPS Acceletometers (shaking, orientation) Magnetometers (compass) SQLite Database

4. www.greenITcenter.org Documentation 4 The site for everything http://developer.android.com/index.html

5. www.greenITcenter.org Android Marketplace 5 http://www.android.com/market Free and paid apps 70% goes to developers

6. www.greenITcenter.org Amazon AppStore Amazon has a store for Android applications also http://www.amazon.com/mobile- apps/b/ref=sa_menu_adr_app4?ie=UTF8&no de=2350149011 http://www.amazon.com/mobile- apps/b/ref=sa_menu_adr_app4?ie=UTF8&no de=2350149011

7. www.greenITcenter.org DUE 0903239 AppInventor

8. www.greenITcenter.org App Inventor An easy to use tool for rapid application development It’s all online. Just drag and drop blocks in a web page to program Supports Mac, Linux and Windows

9. www.greenITcenter.org App Inventor Full featured – but not quite everything you can do with Java.  Location  Google Maps  Sensors  Even Interface with Twitter

10. www.greenITcenter.org Connect the Pieces Plug in the pieces to form the logic of your app No syntax errors Can load the app to your phone

11. www.greenITcenter.org Limitation Can’t go from App Inventor to Android Market For now… Also, can’t import or export Java

12. www.greenITcenter.org Components of AppInventor AppInventor Designer  Build the GUI AppInventor Blocks Editor  Programming with Blocks Simulator or Device  Download and test on your own device  Use an online emulator

13. www.greenITcenter.org Just drag tiles

14. www.greenITcenter.org Get Setup All you need is a Gmail Account http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ Do the Install once then everything is web- based So let’s install….

15. www.greenITcenter.org Let’s Build our first app! Instead of Hello World, lets do Hello Kitty! Picture and Sound Files (zip) is on Wiki page for today Let me show you what it will do Then we will walk through building it together

16. www.greenITcenter.org Next App: Scribbling Demo Build It: See handout and follow along

17. www.greenITcenter.org Next App: Mad Penguin Demo Build It: See Handout and follow along

18. www.greenITcenter.org Free Play Try to add some variations to our existing apps Explore AppInventor Blocks and objects Build something new For tomorrow – Advanced apps in AppInventor  Databases  Other phone tools