Bees and MIT app inventors share many of the same qualities, and they make the world a better place! Bees work hard, individually and in groups, to improve their communities all around the world Bees are creators and makers Bees are industrious and committed to achieving their goals The work that bees do (pollination) is important for the well-being of our planet, just as the apps created by MIT App Inventor users create positive change in the world through mobile computing!

The initial or user-entered text value in a text box component is in the Text property. If Text is blank, you can use the Hint property to provide the user with a suggestion of what to type. The Hint appears as faint text in the box.

The MultiLine property determines if the text can have more than one line. For a single-line text box, the keyboard will close automatically when the user presses the Done key. To close the keyboard for multiline text boxes, the app should use the HideKeyboard method or rely on the user to press the Back key.

App Inventor includes an emulator that lets you develop and test apps using a virtual phone instead of a real phone. Instead of connecting a phone to the USB port, just start the emulator program. When you click Connect to Phone in the Blocks Editor, your app will appear in the emulator.

You can’t do everything with the emulator that you can with a real phone — you can’t shake it, for example, and the emulator can’t make or receive phone calls — but you can use the emulator to create apps and test them, and install them on a phone later if you like.