![]() ![]() Wait a while, someone else might have a different/better solution. ![]() ![]() The school can afford ipads, certainly a few inexpensive tablets are in order. I see a Fire 7 for 50$ and some off brand devices for 35$ or less that probably will work. Plead parents, students and friends for ‘unused’ cell phones.īuy a few cheap Tablets. Yes, this is awkward but could allow students to continue on their Projects. Using the Designer without an emulator works to create an app requires a bit of confidence but can work in a class if you have a least one real device to pass among the class for the students to occasionally test their creations. This is a web browser extension to start the official android online emulator with a simple click from your web browser. Design and code, then BUILD and test the resulting apk in your Android device (that is make the apk periodically and load it into your Android) to test. This means, do not use Companion or the emulator. open command prompt, go to SDK home/tools where you will get emulator. It is possible to develop ‘in the blind’. Install one of the stand alone emulators (I hesitate to recommend one) and let the students test their apk’s on it. Some students might have ios phonesīring in an old laptop. … just cut your Android requirements in half.Ĭurrently App Inventor 2 works only with Android phones. Have them work in pairs to build projects. Share your existing Android phones among students. Institutions have policies regarding software they sometimes make exceptions. Do some fund raising for tablets, change how you teach the course (share stuff) and work in teams?
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