Java Bridge...& AI2 Blocks Code in Java Editor

[oseamiya]

HOWTO : Make our own appinventor and run in on localhost

I don't know that the Java Bridge code was ever open sourced, so you'd have to implement something like that from scratch. For development, most of the dev team uses IntelliJ and it's fairly intelligent about how to import the App Inventor sources. Implementing a debugger is on our list of projects, so you can certainly try to do it but it is a really challenging problem for a number of reasons. Caveat emptor.

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

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…