Last week I finally received my AppInventor access. Didn’t have time to check it tho. Tommorrow I’ll be hacking my first app using this site.

Ill let you know what I discovered and maybe post some code too.

[update]
Did follow some nice tutorials on the appinventor page. It was good to see it was working quite nice. However I’m missing some control in creating a userinterface. It’s nice to quickly prototype/check ideas.

You don’t know which Api’s google made available? Go check out the Google Api Playground, you can create apps in a browser window! Check the exmple below.

Happy coding.

/*
*  How to use the Feed Control to grab, parse and display feeds.
*/
google.load("feeds", "1"); function OnLoad() {
  // Create a feed control
  var feedControl = new google.feeds.FeedControl();

  // Add two feeds.
  feedControl.addFeed("http://dotinga.com/feed/", "Dotinga");
  feedControl.addFeed("http://kanikeralopklikken.nl/feed/", "Kanikeralopklikken");

  // Draw it.
  feedControl.draw(document.getElementById("content"));
}

google.setOnLoadCallback(OnLoad);

Now test it:

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