I had the opportunity create a mobile app using MIT's App Inventor. I'm glad I took the risk, but I will be the first to admit that my first attempt at creating a mobile app is clumsy. I do hope to have the opportunity to practice more and find a way to apply this to my field.
I created an app that would allow me to store recipes instead of having to flip through a recipe book or browse my favorited links online. I enjoyed this project as it tested a new skill set. I appreciate the tutorials that were available on AppInventor, as well as their help center. The blocks were easy to figure out how to link them to make events happen. I did not like the look of what I was limited to create in the program, so I decided to create everything in Canva, upload it to AppInventor as images and then erase any test that would overwrite it
My app had a total of 6 screens and I branched them off using the images as buttons. I would need to add a return to the main menu if I continued to develop the app. One thing I did find, and it could just be on my phone, but the AI Companion did not exactly mirror what I was working on in AppInventor- for example, some text would not be bolded or the colors were not the same.