Want to create AI-powered mobile apps without dealing with complex coding? In the new Elektor book MIT App Inventor for AI and IoT, Dr. Dogan Ibrahim demonstrates how Android applications can be developed using MIT App Inventor’s visual drag-and-drop environment. The book also explores support for iPhone and iPad projects while interfacing with popular hardware platforms such as Raspberry Pi Pico W, Raspberry Pi 5, Arduino UNO R4 WiFi, and ESP32.

The 389-page full-color book combines mobile app development, artificial intelligence, and IoT into a practical, hands-on learning experience. Through step-by-step projects, readers learn how to create interactive mobile applications, connect them to real hardware, and explore AI-powered features without requiring prior programming experience.

Instead of focusing on syntax-heavy coding, the projects use MIT App Inventor’s visual block-based programming system. As a result, the material stays accessible to beginners, students, hobbyists, makers, and educators alike.

 

MIT App Inventor’s drag-and-drop Designer interface simplifies mobile app development for beginners.

AI-Powered Mobile Applications

Early chapters introduce the basics of app development, including user interfaces, multimedia functions, speech recognition, GPS, camera integration, and smartphone sensors. Readers then move on to more advanced projects involving wireless communication, embedded hardware, and artificial intelligence.

One of the most interesting parts of the book is the AI-focused chapter, where readers build voice-controlled assistants, AI chatbots, and image-recognition applications.

AI chatbot and image-analysis app created with MIT App Inventor.

In addition, the projects show how modern AI services can be integrated into practical mobile applications in a surprisingly approachable way.

Connecting Smartphones to Real Hardware

The hardware-oriented chapters show how smartphone apps can communicate with Raspberry Pi Pico W, Raspberry Pi 5, Arduino UNO R4 WiFi, and ESP32 systems using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Classic, and Bluetooth BLE. 

Several practical projects demonstrate smartphone-controlled relays, environmental monitoring systems, voice-controlled LEDs, wireless sensor applications, barcode-controlled systems, and IoT dashboards.

Smartphone control of Raspberry Pi Pico W and relay hardware over Wi Fi.

Throughout the book, numerous screenshots, App Inventor block diagrams, and hardware examples make the projects easy to follow and reproduce. The combination of mobile development, AI, and IoT gives the book a modern maker-oriented focus that aligns well with current trends in connected electronics.

Start Building with MIT App Inventor

Designed around learning by doing, MIT App Inventor for AI and IoT offers an accessible introduction to app development while also showing how mobile applications can interact with AI services and real world hardware.

Whether you want to explore AI-powered apps, smartphone-controlled electronics, or practical IoT development, this book provides plenty of inspiration and hands-on examples to help you get started.

For more information about the platform itself, visit the official MIT App Inventor website: https://appinventor.mit.edu/

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