Beginner Tutorials

Making Mobile Apps with App Inventor

We have four beginner tutorials to try out. We recommend starting with Hello Codi!, but any of the four tutorials are accessible for novice coders. They can all be completed within an hour.

For each tutorial, we have multiple ways of accessing them:

• Click the tutorial link to open up a project directly in the App Inventor environment with the tutorial in the sidebar. This is our recommended way to complete the tutorials. Note that each of these can also be used for Hour of Code events.
• If you prefer, you can click on the video links to follow the tutorial in a video. Please note, this requires you have two windows open in the browser - one to play the video and one to run App Inventor.
• We also have links to pdf files for each tutorial for those who prefer text instructions.

After building the starter apps, which will take around an hour, you can move on to extending them with more functionality, or you can start building apps of your own design.