Welcome to my second blog post! This post will discuss my work with MIT’s App Inventor. I took the time to mess around with the basic application developer and was able to throw a little something together. I decided to make a portfolio application that would represent me as a young professional. App Inventor surely made it an easy process to add backgrounds, add features, and set layout preferences. It is very much the Lego version of a real app inventor, but it brings the overall concept of programming to the basics.

I would describe app inventor as being the apple of application developments. It seems very user friendly, and kind of hard to break considering the bare minimum it allows you to do. With this being said it is also very much like apple in that it doesn’t allow much freedom within it. Although setting the layouts are easy, it seems hard if not almost impossible to space things out specifically. An easy adjustment of margins or padding would be very useful in this case. At the end of the day, I find the elementary level of this product to be both helpful and hurtful. It’s a tradeoff between ease and freedom. 

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