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For example, initial release of your app, you can assign Version Code of 1 and for version name, 1.0.
For your updates, you have to have a higher version code (e.g. 2) and a version name of like 2.0 or 1.1 or any other string. However, keeping them in sync is recommended.

AppToMarket automates this for you. Prior to discussing what needs to be done in AppToMarket, follow step 1

1. First goto your Market console, select the app you want to upgrade, then on subsequent page, select ‘APK Files’ tab. This will you show you current version that you have. Use this to find out what your next version should be. (see market.png)

2. AppToMarket automates this upgrade for you during app conversion (version.png) to see how to manipulate these data. During AppToMarket conversion, just bump-up the Version (version code). This automatically changes the Version Name, BUT, you can change that as needed.

3. Once done, back to your Market console (back to market.png) and click ‘Upload APK’.

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“The App Inventor Java Bridge helps make a transition from developing Android applications with App Inventor for Android, to developing with Java and the Android SDK. It lets you incorporate App Inventor components into apps that you create in Java with the standard Android SDK tools. If you’ve been using App Inventor and know some Java, then the Java Bridge is a good way to get started with the SDK, because building with App Inventor components hides many of the complexities of the Android framework. As you gain experience, you can switch over to regular SDK development and create apps that harness the full power of Android.“

In this example, we try to create equivelant of PaintPot. In this example, I only cover Part II of PaintPot.

The AI Components are available in libSimpleAndroidRuntime.jar which is available for download HERE. This library file is required so that you one would have access to same components that they are used to in App Inventor when using the Block Editor.

To build app using the bridge, include libSimpleAndroidRuntime.jar in your library list.

Some of main sections when using AI Bridge are as follows:

You’ll need the following public method

void $define()
This is equivalent to a “main” method for App Inventor apps

EventDispatcher.registerEventForDelegation(this, “AppInventorInJava”, “Touched”)
Above register for events. The second argument can be any string. The third argument must exactly match the name of the event that you want to handle for that component (e.g. Click, Touched). When the event happens, dispatchEvent will be called with these arguments.

public boolean dispatchEvent(Component component, String id, String eventName, Object[] args)
Above is the event dispatcher for the app which should override the method for the Form superclass

In this method, you can check to see what event was triggered (e.g. Click event). You capture the event and based on that you can perform desired action. For example, if we have two AI Buttons (btnBlue and btnRed), to check to see if btnBlue.Click was triggered or btnRed.Click was triggered, you code the following:
if (component.equals(btnBlue) && eventName.equals(“Click”))
{
//do some action
return true;
}
else if (component.equals(btnRed) && eventName.equals(“Click”))
{
//do some action
return true;
}

You can download this example from HERE which includes comments to highlight important sections.

The Blocks Editor and Designer Editors are shown below. The source for this can be downloaded from HERE.

Please note that I have actually consolidated 2 apps into 1 so that I can show everything in one place.

In reality, it should be broken down into 2 as follows:
1. App1 would be an admin app that is used for managing ad campaigns
2. App2 would be an app that gets published to Market

Using the admin app, once you make update to your ads, all users-devices that has your app installed, App2 the one that utilizes ads, will display the updated ads. See attached file. It shows what needs to be moved to Admin app.

More info can be found by going HERE

The API and sample queries can be found HERE

HERE is how to submit a SQL query to retrieve data from fusiontable.

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