Interface & Applications

This week our group compared different tool options for interface and application programming.

Processing

• GUI IDE in JAVA
• Similar to Arduino IDE
• Includes a variety of libraries with the ability to add others
• Allows for Serial communications through ports (bluetooth, COM, etc.)
• Drawing display with a variety of libraries

Processing for Android

• Extension of processing
• Allows you to upload Processing programs to Android devices
• Has almost all the same features and capabilities as traditional Processing

MIT App Inventor

• Web based IDE
• Simple Drag-Block Based Code
• The IDE allows for easy Android app devolopment

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Last update: May 19, 2021