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App Inventor
App Inventor is a free app development tool, provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT). With the help of App Inventor, we can create apps for smart phones. The working of App Inventor
is similar to Scratch programming language in which we drag and drop blocks for making an app. App
Inventor has two basic views:
Design View: This view contains all the components required to design an application.
Block Editor View: This view is the place where we combine blocks to execute an application.
Setting up App Inventor
For setting up the App Inventor, we should have a Gmail account. To create an app using App Inventor,
follow the given steps:
1
Type URL: https://appinventor.mit.edu/ and press Enter key.
2 Click on Create
Apps! button.
Type your Gmail
3 username and
password.
4
Click on Next button. Click on I accept the
terms of service! 5
button.
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