App Inventor is a thing ... that lets you "invent" applications for Android phones and devices.

It is "scratch-like", visual block-driven interface, web-based and fairly richly featured allowing a good selection of types of APPS.

It is great for kids (we have used it down to Year 7 level, so far) as it is a full event-driven programming environment, full of powerful objects with event-handlers, methods and properties and a range of data types allowing some funky application development.

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This page continues to be a work in progress. From here, you can do a bunch of things:

• Set up App Inventor and get the EMULATOR running
• Download some starter TEMPLATES
• Explore Online APP Inventor documentation
• Explore some previously published "recipes" for apps (warning, some are in AI1 format, the commands are similar but the AI2 interface is cleaner)
• Template and Assets for VirtualPet
• Email me with suggestions