I had a experience full of frustration and confusion while working with MIT App Inventor (MITAI). I worked on creating an app over the course of a few days, my goal for my app getting simpler and simpler as i went along

Of course, when  our instructor showed this MIT-made web-based developer, he warned us to the fullest extent. 'How bad could it be?' i thought.

I initially wanted to make an RGB slider, didn't seem like it would become as complicated as it was. 

For that; it was easy and even fun to make the UI, but i was dead in the water when it came to hooking it up with the blocks. 

After fiddling with it for a while, i decided to change course. Oh hey, my birthday is coming up, is there a countdown feature somewhere under all these categories of UI?? Nope! Just a clock. AND to code a countdown i have to manually do all the calendar math within the blocks? Thats where that idea died. 

My final app was just a switch to display an image, and then a button to enhance it while pressed down. 

The artwork featured was initially an animation made on my tablet very late at night a few weeks back thru AmberDraw. I hadn't planned on using it for this until i, ambitiously, decided i  wanted to try to upload something as high-tech as a moving picture to my  3rd attempt at an application- silly me! I attempted to upload to MITAI as a gif file, then as a mp4 file, then after many errors and condensing ; when i realized that i could only upload files the size of molecules, i just settled for a couple enhanced screen shots to cycle thru and called it a day.

Oh and don't forget the not-so-integrated emulator i could hardly get working, i ended up using the Blustacks emulator to run my final 'app' instead

Very frustrating but at least my silly little app impressed my grandma, so hey, theres that.