Android Apps with App Inventor: The Fast and Easy Way to Build Android Apps

Chapter 7. Multimedia

Normally it would be unusual to discuss the topic of “multimedia” so soon within a beginning-level project, as multimedia apps are quite challenging and generally better suited for advanced developers. But AI’s powerful functions and high degree of abstraction make it possible even for beginners to develop impressive multimedia apps using relatively simple methods. We want to not only present different multimedia files, but also describe how to handle them and even produce them. In this chapter, we again develop a demo app, demo_Media, in progressive fashion and use it to demonstrate the different multimedia components and explain how they can be applied. At the end of the chapter, you will have developed a surprisingly ...