MIT App Inventor for iOS: Now on the App Store 🎉

Point · March 8, 2021, 5:21pm

It's great to see that the iOS companion will now be available to more users and students!
And I can finally run the companion on my Mac!

I must say you did an amazing job👍
The companion works really well on the Mac!
It is also possible to display it in full screen and resize just like a regular Mac application!

Nisarga_Adhikary · March 8, 2021, 5:22pm

Awesome !!

Point · March 8, 2021, 5:47pm

Is it necessary to continue using the bug report form or should bugs now be reported here in the community?
I think it would be better anyway because if I find any bug I do not know if anyone else has reported it before

Anonymous · March 8, 2021, 5:53pm

Awesome to see such a great news . Congratulations to the team

Peter · March 8, 2021, 5:56pm

@ewpatton The link to the blog post in the splash screen of App Inventor is not correct. It is linking to

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/blogs/evan/2021/03/04-mit-app-inventor-ios-app-store

It should be.

http://appinventor.mit.edu/blogs/evan/2021/03/04-mit-app-inventor-ios-app-store

Anke · March 8, 2021, 6:29pm

This is really great news!
And I think that hope could also become a reality, otherwise the MIT team probably wouldn't announce a date (even if that's a bit vague).

ewpatton · March 8, 2021, 6:45pm

You can feel free to report issues in the bugs section. Just mark them with iOS as a tag. We're also going to be releasing a service shortly where you can see a read-only version of the issue tracker.

ewpatton · March 8, 2021, 6:47pm

At the moment our biggest concern is that we don't have good data yet on scalability of the solution we've written (and there are some UI/UX changes that need to be made to App Inventor to support it). We only have one Mac currently dedicated to the build infrastructure currently and need to grow that to support the whole community. For comparison, we have 15 servers with 8 cores each to service the Android builds.

Point · March 8, 2021, 6:53pm

Excellent👍 Thanks for the answer

ewpatton · March 8, 2021, 7:05pm

Thanks Peter. I've set up a redirect so that people end up at the blog post instead of a 404.

ewpatton · March 8, 2021, 7:33pm

Thanks for the report about the performance on the M1 Mac. We don't have one of those yet so we weren't sure whether it would behave correctly. It's good to know that it does!

ewpatton · March 8, 2021, 9:56pm

themaayur · March 9, 2021, 2:09am

Great Achievement

Ekansh_Pandit_devs · March 9, 2021, 3:27am

Great work

ewpatton · March 9, 2021, 1:27pm

A post was split to a new topic: Unable to activate constraints in iOS

Patryk_F · March 9, 2021, 4:18am

Could you please not spam and ask the same in many topics?
https://community.appinventor.mit.edu/t/app-inventor-for-ios-source/12005/6?u=patryk_f

Alpha2020 · March 9, 2021, 9:59am

I have a doubt, how can I create a iOS app? Is there any environment to create that?

Anke · March 9, 2021, 11:53am

In order to be able to create an iOS app (IPA, like APK in Android) with AI2, you have to wait (at least) until the fall semester or try Thunkable or, best of all, use Xcode & Swift.

Alpha2020 · March 9, 2021, 4:08pm

Oh I see, Thank you @Anke

ewpatton · March 9, 2021, 5:04pm

The build functionality is currently in a closed beta test and we will be rolling it out incrementally to folks. We don't have a formal procedure for people to sign up yet for the beta but that will be coming soon-ish. Our biggest challenge right now is that we don't have a ton of available hardware for building out the iOS build infrastructure so we're trying to understand the scope of the hardware needs.