Text Bombing App in MIT App Inventor

The Finished App.

Description:

This is meant to be a fun app in which you can send massive amounts of texts to a persons phone! Now you no longer have to type each individual message when your in a text bomb war! This app can send up too 500 SMS messages at once to any of your friends! Use the slider to adjust the amount of messages you'd like to send, type your message into the text box, and click send! boom! Instant Frustration!

Reflection Questions:

• Our group used a very simple creative process. We just decided on the idea we wanted to focus on, brainstormed and figured out how the guts of the project would work. From there we went into development, working on a feedback loop to produce the final project.
• Our team had a great dynamic. Ben functioned very well, using his phone to help us frequently test our app. Corey designed the final internal code of our app, and I worked on a separate app, trying to troubleshoot why our texting app did not work.
•  Our app was not really trying to solve a problem. Instead we focused on something that would be fun to use, unique, and original.

Our Challenges:

• The timer block creates a fluctuating random color chooser for the apps background
• The address block selects the contact you want to target, and gets the phone number
• The "Send: .click portion establishes the fundamental part of the app. Sending massive amounts of messages.
• the "Number Of Messages" establishes a slider that determines the amount of messages you wish to send

• One of our greatest challenges was trying to troubleshoot what was causing the "Run Time Error" in our app. It was causing our app to fail and no longer work. We determined that separate blocks were conflicting with each other, causing the app to crash
• Another challenge in creating the app was simply getting the app to send messages. In our primary app, we went through several processes to get our app to work. In order to figure out what was wrong, our group had to set up various other apps to figure out how to send SMS messages
• Given more time I think that we could improve the app to make the messages send much faster than they do.  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwhOe_Egvq4uWThEaWFvZzM5X2c/view?usp=sharing