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Hello all,
I am asking this question on behalf of my grade 6 students who are using MobiOne to develop apps!
A group of girls would like to know if it is possible to make an icon/graphic draggable? In other words, they want to have a small graphic appear on one side of the screen and be dragged to the other side by the user. Can this be done in MobiOne?
If you’re curious to see our very first app, dev’ed in MobiOne, check out http://edurls.org/d5.
Thanks for your help..
Chris
Hi Chris,
1st, big congrats on passing appstore review process. That is way cool!
> In other words, they want to have a small graphic appear on one side of the screen and be dragged to the other side by the user. Can this be done in MobiOne?
I personnally don’t know of an easy approach for dragging widgets around. Let me chat with dev team and see if they know of some tricks/techniques that we can use for such behavior. Can you provide a bit more context for how you envision an a draggable widget/graphic being used? For example would it need to have some type of special layout qualities for smart alignment. Would it need to avoid collision with other graphics, …. all info is helpful as we think this through.
Hi Wayne,
Thanks for your response.
I think they just want basic dragging. I don’t think they care if it bumps into other items, they just want to let users interact somewhat.
As an aside, the most frequent question among grade 6 kids (11-12 year olds) is “how can I make a game?”. Just found that interesting.
Chris
Chris,
Just curious, are you a teacher, educator, ….?
What other platforms are your kids dev’ing for, e.g., android, RIM, other…?I teach 6th grade in South Carolina.
I teach a class called Media Technologies, designed to introduce kids to programming and other new technologies. Some kids do game development, some do app programming.
We’ve dev’ed for Android back when the App Inventor first came out, but when Google decided to discontinue it and transfer it to MIT, I worried that we would not be able to use it in future classes.
We also used a web-based iOS app development tool, and found it helpful but we could only do one app.
Along came MobiOne. And we’ve been thrilled with it.
So to answer your question, we’ve dev’ed for iOS (via MobiOne) and Android (via App Inventor). That’s all on the mobile platform.
Chris
