My 2nd Android App

I built this 2nd App using a tool called MIT App Inventor. It's basically for people who don't care to fool around with hard-coding using a programming language, like Java.


To check out App Inventor, go to http://appinventor.mit.edu/ and click on Explore button to learn more.

Anyway, you can also click here to download my 2nd app. It's a simple game called Guess the Number! Basically, you'll attempt to guess what number, between 1 & 100,  the computer (in your phone) has picked at random. If you guess too high, the app will tell you it's "Too High" and if you guess to low, then "Too Low".

As usual, you will have to side-load the app (click here and read a short article on what side-loading is and how to do it).

Thanks for checking it out!

My First Android App

I was inspired to do this by Jennifer Dewalt. Read her blog and experience here. She built 180 websites in 180 days! No Break! What?! Yap. So I am... NOT going to do that but it helped crystallize some things for me; 

1. Best way to learn something is to do it. Repeatedly over time. 
2. Start small, have fun, don't get bogged down by details/specs. 
3. Know where to get answers if you get stuck:Google, Stack Overflow, etc. 
4. Share what you learn, no matter how basic - there always someone who can benefit. 

So here's my first Android App. I built it using instructions from this site for Android developers. Before you install it on your phone/tablet, make sure you have the "Unknown Source" setting checked - you can usually find it in System Settings > Apps Settings... but getting there could be slightly different depending on what version of the Android OS you're running. Once that's done, download this .apk file to your device, click on the download, and then select 'Install'. This will be the process for installing any App that I post here. 

Thanks for trying it out.

***disclaimer: I've been told I'm a bit of a perfectionist and this App is anything but. By far!! However, the idea is to start... and stumble forward, right?