[Yr7-10it] mobile apps

[Ziad Baroudi]

Whilst I haven't used it myself, iStencyl looks great for those who are
looking for a drag and drop environment to develop iOS APPs. They are
promising to support Android soon.
Take a look here: http://www.stencyl.com/istencyl/

Sincerely,
Ziad

On 28 March 2012 08:59, Townsley, Andrew A <
townsley.andrew.a at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I plan to run App Inventor and Android SDK (just placing controls on the
> emulator and getting them to work).
> I am using Windows. You will strugle to get App Inventor to work with more
> complicated tasks that some students will want to do.
>
> App Inventor is a great introduction to mobile apps.
>
> To do iphone apps , I have only seen Flashbuilder do this on Windows but I
> think there is some others. In the future you will probably see products
> that easily convert from one platform to another.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> on behalf of Kent Beveridge [kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au]
> Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2012 4:25 PM
> To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] mobile apps
>
> gday Andrew.
> Are you running your app stuff on a mac or pc platform? I've put off until
> either later term 2 or for term3 for this as a unit with my middle school
> group. Had some delays on our migration to Win7 and our implementation of
> the whole school to iPADs so the next topic will be on VB.NET .
>
> Keep me in the loop on your APP stuff Andrew. I am presently still slowly
> learning the X-CODE/Objective-C stuff ...
>
> Kent.
>
> Kent Beveridge
> ICT Co-ordinator, St.Brigids CSC, HORSHAM,Vic,Aus.
> kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> on behalf of Townsley, Andrew A [townsley.andrew.a at edumail.vic.gov.au]
> Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 9:09 AM
> To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] mobile apps
>
> We have got app inventor for dag and drop android apps.
> WE have also got android SDK/eclipse  and flashbuilder.
>
> I dont like using programming software with little help on the internet.
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> on behalf of Ziad Baroudi [ziad at avilacollege.vic.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 22 March 2012 9:09 PM
> To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] mobile apps
>
> I am running an after-school APP club. I use Corona SDK, a programming
> framework that uses the Lua scripting language. The code can then be built
> for Android and iOS. You can also scale APPs in such a way as to support
> tablets, including the Kindle Fire and Nook Color. Soon, they promise to
> allow releases for Mac OS.
> Corona SDK is not a household name but many high profile APPs, especially
> games, have been written in it. As an example, the APP released to promote
> the Lorax movie.
>
> Stencyl seems to be a worthwhile drag and drop tool to look at, as it looks
> a lot like Scratch and you can release the APP for multiple platforms.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ziad Baoudi,
> Avila College
>
> On 22 March 2012 11:32, Townsley, Andrew A <
> townsley.andrew.a at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Is anyone running a mobile programming course?
> >
> >
> >
> > I have 2 in the pipeline with a drag and drop mobile phone software that
> > connects to an emulator or a phone, and the eclipse/android SDK. This
> took
> > days to work out the setup.
> >
> >
> >
> > Andrew
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