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App Inventor provides a component, TinyWebDB, which can be used to talk to web data sources (APIs) that follow a specific protocol. You can use APIs bring in book data from Amazon, stock information from Yahoo Finance, and data from blogs (see appinventorapi.com for samples) There’s also a new Web component in App Inventor that provides another method [...]
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The App Inventor team just released a new component, and its a whopper: the WEB. Before this component, you had to create and deploy server code, using Python, Java, etc, in order for your app to get data from the web. Now you can call APIs directly from your App Inventor blocks! Suddenly, App Inventor [...]
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I just updated a sample of “Amazon in the Bookstore”, an App Inventor app that lets you search Amazon books by keyword or ISBN. The update even lets you scan a book to get its Amazon information (including lowest price!). The app demonstrates how App Inventor can be used to create apps that talk to [...]
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Steve Lohr of the New York Times calls it Do-It-Yourself App Creation Software. Salon’s Dan Gillmor says it is the Hypercard for mobile development. Others have put it in a more recent context by calling it Scratch for App Development. Mike Loukides of O’Reilly wrote: This is revolutionary; they’re not trying to lower the bar, [...]
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Google has targeted education with App Inventor, but its clear that the tool will attract major interest from programmers and web designer/developers. Programmers see the potential because of the the TinyWebDB component which allows an App Inventor apps to communicate with web services. Early adopter Dean Sanvitale has already built an RSS reader app and [...]
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Jason Kincaid posted an excellent TechCrunch article on App Inventor and his initial experience. His first idea was to create create “an application that would allow a user to monitor TechCrunch headlines for keywords, which could come in handy if a startup wanted to get notified whenever we wrote a post about them.” He quickly [...]
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