This book has provided you with ideas, tools, tutorials, and guidance to become a mobile app developer with MIT App Inventor. You've learned how to do the following:
- Perform a technical setup for App Inventor
- Brainstorm app ideas using the Design Thinking process
- Conduct app research during both the idea generating stage and in the prototype phase
- Navigate the App Inventor platform
- Create a user interface keeping design principles in mind
- Build a user-touch game, an event app, and a raffle app, and expand upon them with more complex features
- Code blocks using sequences, if/then statements, multiple screens, virtual screens, images, databases, and loops
- Research the app marketplace
- Share your apps with others
As you have experienced, a lot of time, effort, iteration, dedication, and creativity goes into making mobile applications. We are certain that the content shared in this book has sparked more than just a casual interest in mobile app development. You have learned skills in coding and design, both of which will help you embark on your new role as an app developer. No doubt you are hooked on making apps and intend to expand your skills even further. The possibilities for creating social impactful apps are indeed endless and we hope that the coding, design, research, and entrepreneurial skills you learned in this book launch you into becoming a lifelong technology creator!