Chapter 2 Building Our First application

Getting to Know Your Application

Together we will be building an application from the very initial stages through to deploying it to stores for public consumption. Given that the application will play such a pivotal role in this book, I want to introduce you to the concept first.

I want to try something a little bit different from the normal types of apps that are built as part of a book or course. Something that requires a fair amount of functionality that a lot of real-world applications also need. Something that can help to make use of potentially older hardware so we can give them a new lease on life.

WidgetBoard

The application that we will be building together will allow users to turn old tablets or computers into their own unique digital board. Figure 2-18 shows a sketch of how it could look once a user has configured it.

Figure 2-18.  Sketch prototype of the application we will be building

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