UNIT 5: APP INVENTOR 2 (LEARN TO MAKE YOUR OWN APP'S)

Paris Map Tour - App Inventor 2 - Intermediate Tutorial

 

In this tutorial, you’ll build a tour guide app for a trip to Paris. Creating a fully functioning map app might seem really complicated, but App Inventor provides two high-level components to help: the ActivityStarter , which makes it possible for you to launch another app from your app, including Google Maps, and the WebViewer , which shows any web page you want within a subpanel of your app. You’ll explore both of these components

and build two different  versions of a tour guide.

 

What You’ll Learn

 

This chapter introduces the following App Inventor components and concepts:

 

• The Activity Starter component for launching other Android apps from your

app.

 

• The WebViewer component for showing web pages within your app.

 

• How to use list variables to store information for your app.

 

• The ListPicker component to give the user the ability to choose from a list of locations.

 

• How to build a URL dynamically to show different maps.