Keyboard shortcuts for app inventor emulator+ custom APKs + shared storage +etc.

[Galaxy777]

Hello.

I have a few questions about the AppInventor PC emulator.

I also tried to install the AppInventor companion APK on a different Android emulator, which simulated a tablet screen, but it did not work: the code did not load.

• I can not find a full list of the keyboard shortcuts online. Can anybody provide me with such a list?
• Show/Hide keyboard and landscape mode
• Is there any way to share storage files?
• The "shared storage"-feature does also exist on Andy and BlueStacks.
• This would also enable/allow me to install APKs into the emulator
• How can I put a custom picture/video into the camera application?
• The camera application ceases to work and actually crashes after a few seconds.

I hope, that my questions will not be considered as irrelevant, and appreciate any help and any brief explaination of mistakes, that I am doing accidentally.

Great thanks again.

[SteveJG]

https://shortcutworld.com/en/Android-SDK-Emulator/win/all 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7724546/keyboard-shortcurts-for-android-emulator

probably there is no switch to change from portrait to landscape on the Google emulator (there is NO MIT emulator...MIT provides a copy of the basic Android Emulator).  You might have better luck using an emulator like GennyMotion ... http://twodogapps.com/?page_id=686

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• Packaging & Sharing Apps

see the Sharing component

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Put a video into the camera app?    AI has a Camera component...you can modify it all you want  if you know Java

MIT App Inventor Sources

To show videos use the VideoPlayer component   or   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mitappinventortest/play$20video%7Csort:date  

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There is a free programming course here http://www.appinventor.org/content/CourseInABox/Intro  and the aia files for the projects in the book are here:  http://www.appinventor.org/bookFiles  

How to do a lot of basic things with App Inventor are described here:  http://www.appinventor.org/content/howDoYou/eventHandling  .