Hi,
Until now I know that it is not abandoned the project. But I asked for the next future. What is the strategy at the current time for this project? Today the delay of the initial project is more than 2 years. This is soo much delay for a normal IT project May be now the conditions are not the same as on the origin and the MIT team decide to close the project as others?
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In our meeting earlier this month with Apple we explored four different potential directions for iOS compilation for App Inventor. We're continuing to discuss with them the best options. In the meantime, we are building out the ad hoc distribution methodology and I'm pushing for us to make an initial version available in May or June.
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This is great news. Thank very much Mr. Patton to you and your collaborators for the efforts that make in improving this great collective project that is AI2. Having milestones gives the users much hope for the project and also predisposes us to help in whatever way we can.
FSG
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That would be great. Keep us posted.
Hello Mr. Patton,
I would be grateful if you could inform us about the status checkpoints of the tasks of being able to have a free method to can distribute apps in Apple with an IPA build system for iOS additionaly to the AI2 Power Users.
As you have informed in the last January, you had planned to be able to provide us a solution for May or June.
I am entirely waiting for your pleasant news.
BR
Ferran
I think that questions like when the ios version will be available, do not speed up the work on the ios version ... not everything always goes as fast as we would like. I think the best answer would be "Wait, wait and wait again. When the ios version will be available, I'm sure everyone will know about it..."
We've been waiting for many years. In this respect, this question is and remains absolutely justified.
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Yes, and based on my testing we might still be able to make that time frame. We'll be having a meeting on the dev side next Tuesday to discuss next steps on all of our development priorities, and this will be discussed as part of that meeting.
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Hello Mr Patton,
There is new news about being able open for all the developpers to can build iOS apps for the Apple Store?
Best Regards
Same question here
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Hello Mr Patton,
How is going the target to can build/compile an iOS app (.ipa) using AppInventor?
Thks
BR
Ferran
So we have broken down the iOS build infrastructure into three separate stages. The first stage is an internal infrastructure change in the buildserver and will go out as part of the next release (scheduled Aug 26 and currently on ai2-test). Once that release is out and stable then we will start rolling out the second and third stages, which are more tightly coupled and probably will go into a future release together. There are a couple security related issues that we need to deal with before that happens.
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Which means soon we can publish apps to Apple app store, but we should use only AI2 built-in components?
Not Extensions.
is this webpage available
Sorry, it was supposed to be HTTP. Fixed it.