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New to App Inventor? Please try the Beginner Tutorials before proceeding with the tutorials on this page.
These tutorials will help you learn about App Inventor and its various components. You can use use the filter to sort through tutorial topics by simply checking the appropriate boxes and clicking "Filter". To restore the default sorting, click "Reset".
NOTE: The list is sorted to show App Inventor 1 tutorials first. For App Inventor 2 tutorials, use the filter below or go to the main AI2 Tutorials page.
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Get the Gold for App Inventor 2 By building the Get The Gold App you will get practice with setting visibility, using Clock components and Timers, and detecting collisions in App Inventor. You'll program an application that has a pirate ship whose goal is to collect all the gold on the screen. |
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Google Voice for Texting over Wifi This guide shows you how to set up a Google Voice account so that your wifi-only device can send and receive texts. The App Inventor texting component is capable of interfacing with Google Voice so that you can create apps that make it possible to text without a phone carrier. |
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Hello Codi! Hello Codi is the Hello World tutorial for App Inventor. This simple exercise takes you through the very basics of App Inventor. In a very short time you will create a button that has a picture of a bee on it, and then program the button so that when it is clicked a "buzz" sound plays. |
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Hello Purr Hello Purr is the Hello World tutorial for App Inventor. This simple exercise takes you through the very basics of App Inventor, and should be the first app you build. |
Basic |
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Hello Purr for App Inventor 2 Hello Purr is the Hello World tutorial for App Inventor. This simple exercise takes you through the very basics of App Inventor. In a very short time you will create a button that has a picture of a cat on it, and then program the button so that when it is clicked a "meow" sound plays. This version of the tutorial is for use with App Inventor 2. |
Basic |
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LEGO EV3 Color Search This tutorial shows you how to build a mobile app that instructs an EV3 LEGO robot to search for a certain color on a white surface bordered by black. The user can pick one color out of red, green, blue, or yellow for the robot to search. The robot will search across the white surface and turn around if it gets to the black border. Here is a demonstration video. |
Intermediate |
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Lego EV3 Pet Robot This tutorial helps you to build an app that allows the user to instruct an EV3 LEGO robot to do certain maneuvers and actions through voice commands. The user can pick one of several commands: forward, backward (reverse), stop, forward slow, forward fast, disconnect, circles, right turn (turn right), left turn (turn left). The robot will follow the user’s voice commands and perform the action for half a second before prompting the user for another command. If the user provides no commands, the previous command will be executed until another command is registered. |
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LEGO ® EV3 Tilt-to-Drive Tutorial This tutorial lets you make an app that drives around an EV3 LEGO robot by tilting a phone or tablet. Tilting forward makes the bot go forward, back --> back, right --> right, left -->left. A steeper pitch will make the robot drive faster… etc. |
Intermediate |
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Magic 8 Ball for App Inventor 2 This introductory module will guide you through building a Magic 8 Ball app with App Inventor 2. When activated, your 8 Ball will deliver one of its classic predictions, such as “It is decidedly so” or “Reply hazy, try again.” At first you activate the 8 Ball by clicking a button. If you are using a device (rather than the emulator) you can add in an accelerometer component so that the 8 Ball makes a new prediction whenever the device is shaken. Note: This tutorial can be used in place of Hello Purr since it initially has the same functionality, and then goes on to the extend that functionality. This version of the tutorial is for use with App Inventor 2. |
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Magic 8-Ball This introductory module will guide you through building a “Magic 8-Ball” app with App Inventor. When activated, your 8-ball will deliver one of its classic predictions, such as “It is decidedly so” or “Reply hazy, try again.” At first you activate the 8-Ball by clicking a button. If you are using a device (rather than the emulator) you can add in an accelerometer component so that the 8-Ball makes a new prediction whenever the device is shaken. Note: This tutorial can be used in place of Hello Purr since it initially has the same functionality, and then goes on to the extend that functionality. |
Basic |