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Mobile apps! Fun games, information gadgets, and simulations for your cell phone or tablet. In this challenge, you will find out more about the field of interaction design and learn some of the principles of designing an app for an end user. You will learn how to use App Inventor, a free tool from MIT to help you quickly and easily create cool new apps of your own design!

The final challenge will require you to identify a mobile app need and design and build an app to fill that need. Be creative!




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App Invention

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300 Level - You really know your stuff

Gather all of your feedback results, both from the App Inventor staff and your chosen testers, log in to App Inventor and get started making revisions. FIRST, be sure to save it under a different name, putting the word "final" at the end (e.g., "appname_final"). Then make your revisions, testing each change to make sure it works. Polish up the look and feel of your mobile app, and when it is finished, submit a new blog post letting us know that your app is ready for review. 

To complete this activity: Submit final app design to the gallery and post a final blog report. Be sure to include a hyperlink to your app on the Gallery.

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Upload your app to the App Inventor Gallery (required)
Packaging your app (optional)

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An Assessor Will:
  • Review your submission
  • Provide feedback within 2-3 days
  • Accept your submission or ask you to make changes
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