Adding your app

Creating the app

Open Sketchware

Click the add + button at the bottom left of the screen.

Enter the app name. This is what will be shown on the launcher (the text under the app icon when the user installs your app.

Change the icon (optional). Click the android logo left of the app name.

Click Advanced Settings

Change the app colors here (optional)

Enter a Package Name. This is what will be used to uniquely identify your app. It is recommended that you use this format: domainextention.domain.appname, for example if this is an app by Sketchub about airplanes, it would be in.sketchub.airplanes, since our website is sketchub.in. If you don't have a domain, put com.yourname.appname, for example if my name is Bofa, and this is an app about airplanes, I would put com.bofa.airplanes. As long as there is no app on the user's device with the same package, you should be fine.

Enter a Project Name. This will show up on Sketchware as the main way to identify this app. If I am creating an app about airplanes, I might put MyAirplaneApp as the project name.

Leave the version code and name the same. You'll change this later when updating your app

Click Create App.

Congratulations, you have created your first app. In the next page, you'll learn about designing and programming your app.