Creating a Mobile Phone App

Lesson 4

• By the end of this lesson you will: • Know how to access AppShed and set up a home page/

main menu for your app

• Know how to upload images (ideally JPG/PNG)

• Continue to populate your E-Portfolio

Lesson 4 Objective

Activity 1 – Making a Main Menu

Tutorials available from the ‘App Development Walkthroughs’ folder on Moodle

45 Mins

Activity 2 – Populating your E-Portfolio

10 Mins

Your E-Portfolio is available from the ‘Mobile App Development ‘ page on Moodle (Year 9)

• Illustrate one piece of outstanding work during the lesson, using Net Control to broadcast a pupil’s screen.

• What this makes this so good?

Plenary – Sharing great work 5

Mins

Have we met today’s objectives?• By the end of this lesson you will:

  Know how to access AppShed and set up a home page/

main menu for your app

Know how to upload images (ideally JPG/PNG)

Continue to populate your E-Portfolio

Additional/ Support Slides

• Ok, so AppShed is not responding - don’t worry! Instead develop your app using PowerPoint. Create a presentation of what your app would look like.

• Download an Image for a phone of your choice from Google Images and use that as your template.

• Your finished design will look just as good as those in AppShed if you use hyperlinks to move between your screens … and remember, be as creative as you can!

Plan B – break glass in case of emergency!

AppShed – Tutorials• Available from the ‘App Development Walkthroughs’

folder on Moodle, file path as follows:

• Curriculum

• Year 9

• ICT

• Mobile App Development

• App Development Walkthroughs

Recap - Creating a User Name and password• Follow the instructions on ‘Preparation sign

information’ accessible on Moodle from:

• Curriculum

• Year 9

• ICT

• Mobile App Development

MAKE A NOTE OF YOUR PASSWORD AND DON’T LOOSE IT – I cannot reset your password in AppShed

so you will loose your work!!

• Although you can use any image type you like, the best ones for use on your app will be PNG and JPEG files.

• Find an image you want to save Right click and

select ‘save image as’ Save as JPEG or PNG Image

Recap – Uploading Images