Is it possible to stamp images on a canvas without needing to make a sprite?

Is it possible using the built in App Inventor features to stamp an image onto a canvas without using a sprite? What I mean by this is say for example, I was recreating space invaders in App Inventor. It would take a really long time to add in a new sprite for every single enemy ship and laser, let alone copy all the code, and it would instead be a lot easier to store the data in lists assigning each ship an index in the list. This would obviously use either one or no sprites, but I don't know if it is possible to paste the images of the ships and lasers onto the canvas wherever I want them. Is there a feature that does this, or maybe an extension instead?

Welcome Tobias.

Yes.

Try the extension at

:wink:

and

https://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/space-invaders

Have fun with your game project. :grinning:

You can also do this with a pool of sprites, no extensions:


Sample run
sprite_pool.aia (64.6 KB)