In today's tutorial, we are going to learn about working with multiple screens. We are going to make an simple music player app.
Note: You cannot test screens. They will own work if you "package your app for your phone" and then run the app on your phone or emulator.
Download the following files. Upload them to the app inventor by clicking Add... under the Media Section of the main window:
Now let's start adding components to the viewer.
We are now going to set up a second screen
A quick note about Screens and Blocks
We are now going to start adding blocks to Screen1
Here are some hard things to try to do. If you don't want to try any of these, or are finished:
Regular Challenge: Make the volume buttons work
Super Hard Challenge: Find a way to make it so the app remembers the users' last choice when the app opens up
Developers Challenge: Create an icon for your app. Add more songs.
Middle School Android App Inventor Tutorials by Richard Incorvia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.