Building Android Apps in Easy Steps (In Easy Steps)

Building Android Apps in Easy Steps begins by explaining how to create a development environment on a computer in which to develop and test Android Apps. It takes the reader through installing Java and the App Inventor alongside each required key function of creating the app itself. Covering areas such as designing the interface, controlling progress, calling functions, and deploying the app, this book shows how together technical knowledge and creativity can produce Android Apps to be proud of. In addition, areas such as playing sounds and videos, tweeting updates, and calling phone numbers are looked at to make fantastic new Android Apps. This book aims to teach programming novices the skills required to create their own Android Apps whilst assisting programmers to gain new skills. For anyone seeking to discover the easiest way to create apps for the Android phone, this book holds all of the answers!

Android is one of the dominant operating systems for mobile devices, and Android App Inventor is a free tool for building apps for Android.

Starting from setting up your computer to develop and test your Android apps, this guide shows how to create graphical interfaces; define application properties; add interactivity; integrate with the web; build and deploy complete Android apps, and more - all using simple drag-and-drop blocks, and demonstrated here by examples.

Use Building Android Apps in easy steps to create your brilliant Android apps without doing any coding!

Mike McGrath gained his extensive knowledge of computer languages while working as a developer contracting to companies around the world. Mike is an established In Easy Steps author with several guides to his credit including: C++; Javascript, Java, PHP, SQL and Visual Basic Express.