AI2's `if` block truthiness check

[mirzattar]

I've been doing something like this (example):

where the if block is checking a string-type variable for truthiness.

However, I just realized that I do not know if AI2 does type coercion if at all. I accidentally made a number of these checks unconsciously coming from an ECMAScript background...so my project is littered with these.

So, does App Inventor 2 do any sort of type coercion, or will the resulting app crash when it tries to check for a bool value in a non-bool input?

[Spicy_Topics]

@mirzattar

where the if block is checking a string-type variable for truthiness

Your methodology have logical error

Better try like this to avoid the app crash
This triggers the input as String

This triggers the given input as Number

[mirzattar]

Thank you for the answer. I would use explicit type checking from now on