App Development

This simple app is designed to give the user a yes/no/maybe answer to their every question. The user asks their question and then shakes their device. The app then displays 1 of 14 different random strings of text in response. (View more...)

This app is a bit different than the original tutorial. I had turned this into a brick-breaker type of game. The user clicks "Start" and then uses their finger to move the platform back and forth catching the ball before it falls past it. Points are awarded when the UFO is hit. Game play gets harder the longer it is played as the speed of the ball increases, in various amounts, as it bounces off different stuff. (View more...)

This app was also fun to build (can you tell I like App Inventor?) mostly because in a previous class I had built a different version that was a bit clunky. This is a classic Whack-A-Mole game where the user has to tap the mole when it appears out of a hole. Every time the mole is tapped, the device vibrates and the score is increased. When the mole is missed, that count is also captured. As the game progresses, the speed of the mole increases which increases the difficulty of the game. (View more...)