Introduction: SJ Basak | iOS Developer (GSoC'26)

[SJ_B]

I’m SJ Basak, an application developer with experience building iOS applications.

I recently came across last year’s contributions to MIT App Inventor, and after reading this year’s announcement, I’m really interested in participating in the upcoming cohort. I’ve started going through the community guidelines and contribution documentation to understand the expectations and workflow.

I’ve just cloned the repository and begun exploring the codebase to get familiar with it. I was wondering if you could share some guidance on where a new contributor should ideally get started—such as beginner-friendly issues, recommended areas of the codebase, or any initial setup tips.

Thank you.

[Kumaraswamy]

Welcome SJ Basak,
Search for issues tagged with "help wanted" in GitHub:

mit-cml/appinventor-sources

Present your proposal once you have identified an issue that you are confident in working with, and it will be assigned to you.

If you require help setting up your local environment, please post it here or on GitHub.

Information regarding this year's GSoC:

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026

Information for people hoping to apply to this year's Google Summer of Code... App Inventor does plan to apply to be an organization in GSoC if we're given the opportunity to do so. I haven't found the exact date the organizations will be announced, but it looks to be sometime in February. We won't know if App Inventor will be a part of GSoC 2026 until late February. Assuming that we are able to apply to be an org and are selected, here is some information about MIT App Inventor that should he…

[SJ_B]

Okay, the set up is almost complete. But at last when trying to build using ant, I found these errors
buildError.txt (22.2 KB)

I am guessing it's cause of the dissimilarity between the JDK version.
I got javac 25.0.1,, but in the doc it's asking for javac 1.8x.

[Susan_Lane]

It should be java 11 or 17. Definitely not 25.