Just a quick update – I’ve been busy the past several weeks and did not get to complete the tutorials I had thought I would have done by now!

There are several topics I hope to cover soon including how you can store user interface components in App Inventor Lists. Say what?

Yes, you can create a list that contains, say, all the buttons you have on the screen. Why would you want to do that? Well you could use a simple for loop block to change the color of all the buttons simultaneously! And much more.

Another idea I’d like to implement is to modify my GPS app and have it send latitude and longitude coordinates to another phone using SMS messaging (instead of Firebase, as was done in that original version).

I’ve also done a little experimenting with creating Youtube video tutorials – but I have not posted any of these yet. I want them to have the right “feel” and quality before I put them online so I will continue to experiment with some ideas until I get them looking right.

Also, my apologies for not being on the Facebook group page very much. I’ll try to do better. Would you believe I did not even log in to Facebook for two weeks? My personal Facebook news feed (from friends!) has been overrun with angry and hostile political posts that turn off many people, including me. I just lost interest in logging into Facebook only to see a bunch of angry people expressing outrage every day.

I’ll try to better and get logged in this week and caught up. Lots of heavy rain the next few days so what else to do anyway?