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Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript

You're reading from   Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript Get the best out of Arduino and Raspberry Pi Zero to develop Internet of Things projects using JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888564
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ruben Oliva Ramos Ruben Oliva Ramos
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Zero 2. Connecting Things to the Raspberry Pi Zero FREE CHAPTER 3. Connecting Sensors - Measure the Real Things 4. Control-Connected Devices 5. Adding a Webcam to Monitor Your Security System 6. Building a Web Monitor and Controlling Devices from a Dashboard 7. Building a Spy Police with the Internet of Things Dashboard 8. Monitoring and Controlling Your Devices from a Smart Phone 9. Putting It All Together

Creating our first application


App Inventor for Android is an open source web application originally provided by Google, and now maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It allows newcomers to computer programming to create software applications for the Android operating system (OS). It uses a graphical interface, very similar to Scratch and the StarLogo TNG user interface, which allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application that can run on Android devices. In creating App Inventor, Google drew upon significant prior research in educational computing, as well as work done within Google on online development environments.

You don’t need to install any software for APP inventor to execute in your computer; you just need your Gmail account to access the APP inventor interface.

To enter APP Inventor you just need to go to: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/.

Go to create apps to start designing the app.

First we need to have an account with Gmail; we...

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