Friday, June 21, 2013

Open Source Development with App Inventor: Part 6 : Wrapping Up Series 1

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Part 6 of Open Source Development with App Inventor will be the last video that I'm going to record for now. Most of the basics have been covered, so I have decided to take a break from videos, and probably go back to writing more focused posts. In any case, don't expect much from me until the end of the summer!
If you have any topics that you'd like me to cover, and think it's worth making a video of it, please leave a comment.

The last couple of hangouts have been focused on the part of App Inventor that, in my opinion, is the most technically interesting: how incremental development happens in the REPL, which for us can either mean the emulator, or a connected device (via USB or wifi). I know little about that part, so I guess that's why I find it so interesting. If you want to know more about incremental development, you cannot miss out watching the hangout in May, in which Jeff talks about it, and also about the rendezvous server used with the Companion app(wifi mode). The video is here:



For more information on how Java interoperation is achieved through Kawa, the June hangout should help:



There are a number of very important topics for App Inventor development, and I briefly cover some of them in the video. Please use the mailing list for discussion, ranging from ideas or improvements, to stickier topics such as what the primary audience for App Inventor is, should the focus shift towards other targets, and so on.
There's been a number of new distributions appearing (if you follow the forums, you can see the work Hossein, Gary, or Dave Wolber are doing). These are all great, but it would also be great if, as a community, we can talk about how to best approach things and design for interoperability. A couple of good examples in the forums are the threads about the sqlite component, and a discussion titled the dangers of fragmentation. Please keep active in the forums and irc.

The last subject in this video briefly covers how to work with App Inventor 2 (codename: newblocks) from the github account.

And finally, here's the video for Part 6:




Enjoy!

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