Essential Question: How are apps created that use texting, location sensing, and databases?

Objective: I will be able to create apps with texting and location functionalities.

Word Wall:
texting
persistent data -- data that lives on even after an app is closed and re-opened.
dynamic data -- data that is not fixed, but is created/edited as an app runs, often through end-user input (can also be data from the web, etc.).
TinyDB (database)
location
longitude
latitude
altitude
GPS

Texting - There are three blocks to send a text:

setting the Texting.Message
the Texting.PhoneNumber, and
then sending it (Texting.SendMessage).

App Inventor & Persistence - Phone Call + Texting + Contact Picker

App Inventor & Persistence - Storing Persistent Data in a TinyDB

App Inventor - Location Sensor - version 1 but easily built in version 2

Tasks:

Go to AppInventor.org and click on Module 3: Build Apps with Texting and Location Sensors link.
Review Google Voice for Texting over Wifi. Try Alert Me after signing up for Google Voice and installing the Google Voice app on your device.

Learn about using LISTS in apps.

Creating Lists

Learn about PERSISTENCE in apps with media.
PART I MODULE 3: TEXTING & DATABASE APP: Build the No Texting While Driving app.

Note: If you did not complete No Texting While Driving pp last year, use these links to complete it. Video | Instructions | textbook chapter
Go to No Texting While Driving - Conceptualize and Customize. This will give you experience with TinyDB (database) and persistence.

A. Answer the discussion questions. You will see them again an a quiz/test/exam.

Help on how to send a text to a list of friends! Create a list of five numbers. My number is below.

B. Complete ONE of the four Customize Exercises on your No Texting While Driving app. Make sure you add on your No Texting While Driving google site classroom portfolio page which number you did in your app description.

Add my numbers to your list of phone numbers: 703-261-4385 & 570-640-3756

Customization Exercises - CHOOSE ONE! ADD IT TO YOUR GOOGLE SITE SO I KNOW WHICH ONE YOU ADDED. ;)
1. Write a version of No Text While Driving that lets the user define custom responses for particular incoming phone numbers. For instance, if your best friend texts you, you respond with one message, but for anyone else you respond with another message. You'll need to add conditional (if) blocks that check for the particular number(s).
1. Write a version of No Text While Driving that sends custom responses based on whether the user is within a certain latitude/longitude range. So, for instance, if the app determines that you're at home, it sends back a response “At Home”.
1. Write a version of No Text While Driving that sounds an alarm when a text is received from a number in a "notify" list.
1. Write an app that texts a message to all the numbers in a list, but allow the user to enter and change the numbers for the list and modify the message sent out. Your data should be persistent.
C. Create a page in your App Inventor Class Portfolio for this customized No Texting While Driving app. Make sure to add which number customization you completed for this app.

Make sure you include: App Title, App Description, Your name as App Developer, App Directions, Screen Shots of your app working, .apk file, .aia file, and QR code to access your .apk file. Remember if you make changes to your app you need to delete the .apk and .aia file on your page and upload the new .apk and .aia files.

(75 points)
Review the properties and functionalities of the Location Sensor.
Learn about how to use the Location Sensor in your apps.
PART II MODULE 3: LOCATION SENSING APP: Build the Location-Aware app.
- Location Aware app - version 1 but the same code
- Location Aware app
- Location Sensing App
- Texting and Location Sensing Module
- Get experience with the LocationSensor component and another look at persistent data.
Create a page for this app in your classroom portfolio google site.
(75 points)

Make sure you include: App Title, App Description, Your name as App Developer, App Directions, Screen Shots of your app working, .apk file, .aia file, and QR code to access your .apk file. Remember if you make changes to your app you need to delete the .apk and .aia file on your page and upload the new .apk and .aia files.
Build the Android Where's My Car app.
- It just displays latitude, longitude, and street address.
Create a page for this app in your classroom portfolio google site.
(75 points)

Make sure you include: App Title, App Description, Your name as App Developer, App Directions, Screen Shots of your app working, .apk file, .aia file, and QR code to access your .apk file. Remember if you make changes to your app you need to delete the .apk and .aia file on your page and upload the new .apk and .aia files.

Total Module 3 Points: 150 (2 APPS)

Publish your apps to your AI Class Portfolio to the MIT App Inventor Gallery. Make sure it is one that you are proud of and works correctly. Test it out in the Emulator. Find an icon for your game at OpenClipArt.

Rubric for Module 3 (No Texting While Driving & Location Aware apps):
App Inventor 2 - Module 3 Rubric-1.docx

App Inventor 2 - Module 3 Rubric.pdf

Exit Inquiry: With the new concepts you used in this module (texting, location sensors, TinyDBs, choose one and write three sentences about the concept to help a new student working with these concepts for the first time.

How to create a Screenshot on a Windows PC:

Click CTRL+PrintScreen. Then open Paint. In a new document, click on CTRL+V. Then click on the Selector tool and select the part of the screenshot that you want to add to your Google Site. Click on Crop. Save as a .png or a .jpg file and save it to your Desktop.

How to create a Screenshot on an Apple PC:

Click Command+Alt+3. The screenshot will be saved on your Desktop with the date and time as the filename.