Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++

Creating a Talking Pi Android app

Talking Pi is a simple Android application in which you type text inside a textbox and the smartphone displays and reads out the text. Before creating this Android app, we first need to get access to the App Inventor 2 dashboard. The final layout of the Talking Pi application will look somewhat like this:

To create Android applications using App Inventor 2, you must have a Gmail account. If you have one already, sign in on a browser of your choice. If you do not have one, you will need to create one. Let's now look at the steps for linking App Inventor 2 with your Gmail account:

1. After signing in, go to the ...