Is there a way to export Appinventor projects as Android studio projects?

[ewpatton]

@jnoord

If the intermediary code is something else than standard code (again not sure but likely) that could make it problematic to translate outside of that context. APP Inventor native code with a launcher merged into an APK may be as straightforward as the process of running Python code by an interpreter. In fact the IDE would already have that capability. Probably existed before the IDE was constructed anyway in the prototype stages. All that would be needed is use it.

The intermediate code generation is in a language called YAIL, which is a Scheme with additional macros that provide a clean interface for the blocks to translate into. In the companion, this code is interpreted but in APKs it is compiled directly to Java bytecode before running through the normal Android build process.

The point of the Java bridge research project was to produce a version of App Inventor that could generate Java code rather than Scheme. However, I don't believe the results of that project were ever open sourced.