Magic 8 Ball week 3

In our second tutorial in newstead, we were asked to design an app, on app inventor, of a magic 8 ball. As with the Hello Purr app before we had to go online and download an image of a magic 8 ball and also mp3 sound for the creation of the app. The step by step guide was very helpful. It was detailed and very easy to follow.

The same as last time we started with the design view and created a front page for the app with the magic 8 ball image. A problem I ran into on this part was that my image only came up small so I had to change the height and the width measurements so it would be aligned with the app design. Then I also included the mp3 sound into the design view. Above is a picture of design  view before any modifications to image were made.

Then following the design view, I went onto the block view. At this part of the app inventor is where you set up different settings for the app, for example when a noise should be played or when you touch a button the noise should play. We set up a few different blocks with the magic 8 ball. It was set up that when button was clicked, the app would make a noise and a random item from the list would appear on the screen.The image above is a block view image with the different settings being made.

Each week we use the app inventor I feel I am becoming more knowledgeable with the different tools and settings.