Dear App Inventor Development Team,
I'm an app developer, and your software has helped me a lot, but I have a few small suggestions for this software:
First, is it possible to add support for the material3 appearance? The current software developed with AppInventor still looks stuck in 5 years ago and doesn't look very aesthetically pleasing.
The second point, the software developed with app inventor has been reported as a virus software by many mobile phone systems, including Google, Huawei and a series of other models have relevant cases, and there are also relevant content on the Internet, hoping to make changes, on most mobile phones, installing apps marked as Trojan viruses is very cumbersome, for example, Xiaomi mobile phones need to enter the system settings to turn off more than 2 security protections, and the installation is often accompanied by eye-catching red pop-ups, For example, Huawei phones will pop up a prominent red prompt box every time they install or launch and ask users to confirm twice, which is very detrimental to developers, which means that developers cannot easily upload their apps to some large AppStores with strict reviews, and many users will leave and uninstall immediately after seeing the risk warning. According to the analysis of a netizen, this problem may be related to the signature of the app's package name, or that someone has used this tool to develop a real Trojan horse, resulting in all software developed using App Inventor being blocked by some cybersecurity companies.
Finally, I hope that the development team can add a unified adjustment of the font of the entire software, my user wants to use his own font in the software, but the font of the current app inventor does not support user-side adjustment, I hope it can be improved
The above are some of my comments and suggestions on App Inventor, I hope the development team can make changes, thank you
I don't really see this as a general issue.
I currently test my apps on about 20 Android devices (Android 4–16), including Pixel, Huawei, Xiaomi and other manufacturers, and I have not encountered virus warnings or installation problems.
Regarding Material 3 and global fonts — these sound more like feature requests than actual issues. App Inventor has always focused more on functionality than modern UI styling.
It would be helpful to know: Which devices exactly (Android versions) show virus warnings.
Without reproducible cases, it's difficult to treat this as a general App Inventor problem.
Also post screenshots...
I reproduced this situation, and I encountered the following situation: 1 The software developed with App Inventor will not report the problem until a few weeks after use, and it is accidental, 2 mitai2companion will be reported as a virus as soon as it is installed, see the image below for details (translated into English using AI software)
Oh yes, I used Android 7 and 9 for testing