If SCRATCH can do it, Why not AppInventor ? Publish to a Web Page . Can it be that hard?

If SCRATCH can do it ( https://packager.turbowarp.org/ )
Why not us ? Publish to a Web Page . Can it be that hard ?
Please tell us , at least, that its on a TO DO LIST ?

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I guess you are free to attempt the same thing for AppInventor...

Yes, it actually would be.

Scratch projects are actually just HTML/CSS/JS made with blocks, so it is fairly simple to convert the data to a web page. For executable programs, it's probably just a webview in a templated app that is told to run the HTML/CSS/JS code, and is packaged.

But AppInventor projects wouldn't be easy to make a website from. Android apps are written in Java or Kotlin (AppInventor uses Java). Browsers cannot natively run Java. Windows executables are written with C or C++. Mac executables are written in Swift, I believe. Therefore the Java would need to be rewritten as HTML/CSS/JS at least, which is difficult even with AI (because it isn't always right).

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Well this is APP inventor, used for creating mobile apps and they are not created in html, plus scratch is converted to html because it already has a web base.