• Sample Apps

Stock Quotes

You just made a huge stock deal that will make or break your life, so you need to check the price every couple of minutes. This app let’s you do it on your Android phone by relaying your requests to the Yahoo Finance API

TRY IT. Scan the barcode to your Android phone:
CUSTOMIZE IT. Download the source code blocks to create your own Amazon app.

  1. save the source file to your computer–>
  2. open the My Projects page in App Inventor
  3. select Upload Source
  4. choose this file
EXPLORE the Yahoo Finance API. This is a web page interface to the same data used by the App Inventor Android app. Yahoo Finance API Explorer
CUSTOMIZE THE API. Are you a programmer? If so, download the source code for the API. It’s an App Engine program written in Python. It only provides access to some of the Yahoo Finance functionality–you can easily add more!

4 Responses

  1. Flavio, on June 5, 2011 at 10:16 pm said:

    Fantastic! absolutley fantastic. I’m NOT an expert and I could easely run this source on app inventor. And now I can have the stock data in my android phone by “myself”. Thank you guys. I’ve done a fantastic job.

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  2. wolber, on June 6, 2011 at 4:51 pm said:

    Hi Flavio. I’m glad you liked the stock data sample. Just to let you know there’s a way to do this now without using an API as the App Inventor team now has a web component. Check out this sample: http://appinventorblog.com/2011/06/02/app-inventor-has-a-new-component-the-web/

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  3. Noé, on February 20, 2014 at 4:41 am said:

    Hi, i’m trying to load this source code. but, cannot find the opcion “Upload Source” in the “My Projects” screen.
    Can you help me? or where can i download an aia project file

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