Contributing through github – App Inventor 2

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Slides on how to contribute to App Inventor 2; based on reveal.js

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Contributing through github

App Inventor 2

Created by Jose Dominguez / @josmasflores

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Not familiar with github?

try.github.com

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Fork the Repo

https://github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-sources

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clone locally

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USER_NAME/appinventor-sources.git
# Clones your fork of the repository into the current directory in terminal

swap YOUR_USER_NAME for your real user name

configure remotes

$ cd appinventor-sources
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-sources.git

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.gitignore

$ cp sample-.gitignore .gitignore

If you don't do this, you will get in all kinds of trouble

build app inventor 2

$ cd appinventor
$ ant

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run app inventor 2

$ your-appengine-SDK-folder/bin/dev_appserver.sh 
            --port=8888 --address=0.0.0.0 appengine/build/war/
Note that you will need to download App Engine for Java, and these routes are relatives to the path of your AppEngine installation

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run the build server

$ cd appinventor/buildserver
$ ant RunLocalBuildServer
The build server is needed to create apk files

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you are now ready to go!

Navigate to localhost:8888

Checkout the App Inventor Developer Overview for more information about the overall architecture of the system.

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