24th Reflection

The last lab in App Inventor that we did was the Amazon Book Store application. The purpose of the app was to be able to search for books on amazon by using either keywords, an ISBN number, or a scanned bar code. The app would then return a specific book, or the top five books that were related to the search, and give their title, ISBN number, and price. Making the app was actually pretty simple and the logic behind it was sound. The lab required a TinyWebDB to be used to access amazon.com, but then all you had to do was use the value(s) returned by the TinyWebDB to print out on the screen. This last lab for App Inventor was a good way to end the section because it used more interesting aspects of the App Inventor, like TinyWebDb and a Bar Code Scanner.

-jag13