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

Local Variables

The last type of variable is the local. It is a variable, so we know that it is a storage location with a name where we can put values in and read them out. A local variable needs to be explicitly initialized, like a global, and uses orange getters and setters, also like a global. What makes this one different is that the scope of the variable is limited. You can actually control exactly what the scope is, and that’s both cool and useful. Take a look at a local variable block in Figure 4.16. Note the notches on the top and bottom. Those mean that it clicks into a stack of action blocks: setters, procedure calls, and so on. It also has the same notch inside it, where you can put more action blocks. In addition, you can see an ...