Issues building App Inventor sources

[imdhruvgupta]

Hello Everyone,
I am Dhruv Gupta from India, currently pursuing Btech in computer science. I am interested in Gsoc’20 too. I have been developing applications in java and javascript for the past 2-3 years now and have good knowledge in it.

I tried building app inventor using the quoted document. In the document it is mentioned that Oracle Java 8 is required to build while I have openjdk version 13 installed. When I tried installing Oracle java 8 I found a note that it is no longer available for public download (Stackoverflow’s link) .

@ewpatton

How to build App Inventor from the MIT sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xc9yt02x3BRoq5m1PJHBr81OOv69rEBy8LVG_84j9jc/edit

I also tried building the app inventor using vagrant as stated in the github readme, but that too resulted in a few errors. I have macOS Mojave. Any help/ guidance is much appreciated.

Also, I would like to know if we could introduce docker, that would really help with such issues.
Thanks
Dhruv

[ewpatton]

@imdhruvgupta

I also tried building the app inventor using vagrant as stated in the github readme, but that too resulted in a few errors.

If we don't know what the errors are, we cannot help you. You may want to start a different thread to discuss the vagrant issues specifically.

[Diego]

@imdhruvgupta

I tried building app inventor using the quoted document. In the document it is mentioned that Oracle Java 8 is required to build while I have openjdk version 13 installed. When I tried installing Oracle java 8 I found a note that it is no longer available for public download (Stackoverflow’s link) .

JDK's above 11 included usually fail with App Inventor. I found some issues with the components and buildserver.
Even though OracleJDK license changed, you can use OpenJDK 8 or AdoptOpenJDK 8. The 8th version of any JDK will work properly with App Inventor. I use OpenJDK 8 without problems.