Learning MIT App Inventor: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your Own Android Apps

Scope: Global and Local Variables

So far in this chapter, we’ve used two kinds of variables that are built into existing parts of App Inventor: the properties of a component and the parameters to an event. You likely will soon encounter a case when you need your app to remember something but those two built-in variables won’t do the job. You have two more kinds of variables available: global and local. In general, a variable is a location in the app that’s invisible where you can store some information. All the variable types in this chapter have that in common: They hold data. They also have names that make it easy for humans to use them while working on the app.

A global variable is accessible anywhere in your blocks. It can be read or written ...