Title: Work Plan: First Contact with App Inventor
Course: Informàtica 4t ESO v2 ang > Section: Topic 3. First Contact with App Inventor

Work Plan

What will you learn in this topic?

In this topic you will start to handle App Inventor to learn how it works and its possibilities. We propose different material, both written and in the form of video tutorials, to help you take the first steps. The activities are very simple and heavily guided, but will help you develop your App later on.

The different sections are:
- What is App Inventor?
- The App Inventor Website
- App Inventor in Practice

Timing:

Total time spent on this topic is 12 hours distributed as follows:

- What is App Inventor? → 0.5 hours
- The App Inventor Website → 1.5 hours
- App Inventor in Practice → 10 hours

Proposed work sequence:

- What is App Inventor?

What will you learn? | Resource or activity | Description
Knowledge of the process to be followed throughout the project | Video: Mobilising IT. App Education | Video explaining the process to be followed throughout the project

- The App Inventor Website

What will you learn? | Resource or activity | Description
Learning about App Inventor: operation, possibilities, tools | Book: App Inventor: Getting Started | Book with explanations on how to create an App Inventor account and send apps from a computer to a smartphone.
Web page: The App Inventor Website | Balsamiq official site Remember you need a Google account to access it.
Video tutorials: MIT: App Inventor course with video tutorials | Explanatory videos in the form of a course.

- App Inventor in Practice

What will you learn? | Resource or activity | Description
Development of the first apps | Assignment: Building Your First App: Hello Purr | Creating an App with sounds and images
Assignment: Making Your Phone a Drawing Tool: PaintPot | Creating an App to draw with
Assignment: Taking and Saving Photos | Creating an App to save and use photos taken from a smartphone.
Assignment: Building Your First Mobile Game: MoleMash | Creating an App in the form of a game
Assignment: Moving an Object with the Phone | Creating an App to control an object on the screen through the use of the mobile.
Assignment: Where Are We? Where Are We Going? | Creating an App using Google Maps
Assignment: Making a Q&A Game: Quizzapp | Creating an App in the form of a game

For each activity you must hand in:

- The App packaged in .apk format (Android application package)
- The App source code (.aia)

You can see how to do it here: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/share.html