Title: Work plan: First contact with App Inventor
Course: Appdate yourself 4t ESO (in English) - Curs 2017/18 > Section: Topic 4 First contact with App Inventor

Work plan

What will you learn this unit?

This topic starts with App Inventor in order to know how it works and what possibilities it has. You will have a series of material, both written and in video form, to help you take your first steps with App Inventor.  The tasks are very simple and well guided, however, you will also get guidelines in order for you to develop your App later on during the course.

We will follow these steps:

- App Inventor Web page
- Tasks with App Inventor

Timing:

The time dedicated to this topic is 6 hours, distributed in the following way:

- App Inventor web page → 2 h
- Tasks with App Inventor → 4 h

Suggested work plan:

- App Inventor web

What will you learn? | Resource or Activity | Description
Get to know App Inventor: how it works, possibilities, tools | Web page: App Inventor web | Official page for App Inventor: You must sign up
Web page: Learn App Inventor | Help page with tutorials, examples, resources to help learn App Inventor
Video tutorials: The App School: App Inventor course with video tutorials | Video explanations for classroom use

- Tasks with App Inventor

What will you learn? | Resource or Activity | Description
Development of your first App | Task: Build your first App: Hello Purr | Creation of an app with sound
Task: Convert your phone into a drawing tool: PaintPot | Creation of an app for drawing
Task: Build your first mobile game: MoleMash | Creation of a game app
Task: Build a more elaborate game: Pong | Creation of a game app

For each one of the tasks, you will have to hand in:

- The packaged application format .apk (Android application package). The following link will instruct you how:  http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/support/packaging-apps.html
- The application's source code. Go to "My projects" page and select a project by going to "more Actions - Download Source".