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App Inventor 2 Essentials

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785281105
Pages 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

App Inventor extras


We'd like to introduce you to some App Inventor features that you may not know about.

Shortcuts

In this book, we showed you how to find and select blocks in the Blocks Editor. But, if you already know the block you want, there is a quick way to get it. All you have to do is click anywhere on the white space of the Viewer window and start typing. For example, if you want the When GuestsButton.Click event block, begin typing the word when and a drop-down list will appear, allowing you to choose the block you want among other blocks beginning with wh. Once you select the block, it will appear in the Viewer.

We didn't give you this shortcut initially because we wanted you to become familiar with where blocks were housed and how they were grouped (not because we wanted to make you work harder).

Help

There are a variety of ways to get help while you are using App Inventor. In the Designer, you may or may not have noticed little questions marks on the right-hand side of the Components...

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