RE: Interested in contributing to MIT App Inventor (GSoC 2026)

Hyy,
i am new to open source, i found MIT app inventor organisation interesting and wanted to contribute in the same with the goal of applying to GSOC'26. Can you plz help me out and guide so that i start contributing? When i was reading the post of 'Google Summer of Code(GSOC)2025', one thing which i didnt understand was 'Before sumbitting a gsoc proposal, you will need to be able to successfully build your own copy of app inventor and build a sufficiently complex app to show your grasp of how App Inventor works'.Can you plz explain this to me? Do we have to make a clone project of app inventor before sumbitting the proposal?

Thank you for sparing your precious time!!
Aditya Pyasi Misra

Welcome @Adityaaaa04,

It is required that you have a version of App Inventor on your machine to test and develop locally. The build instructions are in the README.md file.

You need Google Cloud App Engine and Ant installed on your PC to run App Inventor. If you have any problems setting up a local version, please reply here.