Over the past several months I've been hard at work learning to develop android apps. I just published my first app on to the
Google Play Store. The app is called
Balance Bike: A Learning Game.
Balance Bike is an educational game for young children to learn words, letters, and numbers through touch, sound, and speaking. The app currently contains six categories: farm animals, wild animals, birds, alphabet, numbers, and colors.
Balance Bike starts up with a home screen that allows kids to pick from different categories.
Once a kid picks a category, they're presented with a wheel of pictures. Here, they can spin the wheel.
The wheel eventually stops spinning and an animal is selected. On this screen, the first sound we hear is the name of the animal. The second sound we hear is the animal's sound. Clicking on the left and right musical notes repeats the animal name and animal sound, respectively.
Underneath the picture of the animal is a third button. Pressing the microphone, the app focuses on the word, asking the child to speak what they see. At this point, speech recognition is used to see if the word is said correctly.
