Extension Developers | Updated AppInventor Sources?

Abhijith_Dominic · March 18, 2019, 12:46pm

Hi,
I just updated my AppInventor Sources and oh no… no… I messed up everything! It’s not working as the build.xml Files are Different! The Documentation is old compared to the latest Sources. Have you guys Noticed the Changes? Any Suggestions on how to use the new Build Files?

FOR THOSE WHO ARE STARTING TO MAKE EXTENSIONS DONT FOLLOW THE OLD DOCUMENTATIONS AS it’s DIFFERENT SOMEWHAT…

yusufcihan · March 18, 2019, 2:09pm

Why you don’t use Kodular IDE ?

Abhijith_Dominic · March 18, 2019, 2:20pm

Limitations… There is no support for external jar files which is a huge limitation for me as i make Extensions mainly which are external

Abhijith_Dominic · March 18, 2019, 2:20pm

My extensions are Compiling Again Once i switched back to Old AppInventor Sources

cian · March 18, 2019, 9:01pm

I agree here. I wish we could support external jar files.

hammerhai · March 19, 2019, 12:47am

You guys are gonna have to upgrade to the Premium Plan when it releases then like they’ve said. The reason I don’t use the IDE is because the limit to not being able to change your package name.

hammerhai · March 19, 2019, 3:00am

By the way, I did some more research and this seems to be the issue:

github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-sources

Fix build system dependency relationships (#1605)

committed 05:10PM - 12 Mar 19 UTC

ewpatton

+77 -67

PR #1569 moved some constants into the shared ComponentConstants.jar file. Buil…ding the full system works with this change, but only due to implicit relationships in the order of how targets are executed. Unfortunately, these implicit relationships are not present when running either `ant extensions` or `ant RunLocalBuildServer`, which results in a broken build. This changes does two things: 1. Add an explicit dependency to CopyToRunLibDir in buildserver on the target to build ComponentConstants.jar 2. Breaks a cyclic dependency of the components module on the buildserver module on the components module due to the extensions mechanism wanting to build the buildserver to aggregate the dependencies of the AndroidRuntime into a single directory. This is accomplished by breaking the move into two parts, one which moves the files into the public build directory, which is now populated by the components build.xml, and the second which copies them into the buildserver in its build.xml. This allows the extensions mechanism to use the public directory so it no longer needs to reference the buildserver. Change-Id: I8df1a373dbb4e98a53e9a41817a15b1dfd4856c6

Unfortunately, these implicit relationships are not present
when running either ant extensions or ant RunLocalBuildServer,
which results in a broken build.

Edit at 11:07 PM

I am testing a possible solution.

Edit at 11:39 PM

OK, I have no idea what error you’re getting, but if you could tell us that would help a lot because for me I updated and Lite compiled within 4 minutes and normally it takes 9-10 which is a huge improvement.

Edit at 11:46 PM

Hmmm, it’s literally a broken build, no definition files

Abhijith_Dominic · March 19, 2019, 4:36am

My Problem was that When i Compile my extension the size was 16kb which was 1MB+. I thought woah great update the size reduced and then while testing the app crashes

The SDK is not being imported… I fixed it by reverting back to the old sources

Abhijith_Dominic · March 19, 2019, 4:38am

The Same thing with me but the extension won’t work…

clashwithasif · March 19, 2019, 10:21am

do you have forked of old source at your github if yes please give me link cuz i have clone it from mit github but i dont know how to add external library in it please give me old one

hammerhai · March 19, 2019, 8:10pm

I simply made a new folder so I would still be able to build extensions:

Just put the extracted contents on our Desktop and you won’t have to take any extra steps to build except click the build-extensions.bat to being building. I’ve made a PR to add this to default AI to help beginners build their extensions.

Abhijith_Dominic · March 19, 2019, 8:14pm

Do you know any easy way to add external Libraries? I’m tired of adding lot of libraries

hammerhai · March 19, 2019, 8:15pm

Ask or search here.

hammerhai · March 19, 2019, 9:37pm

OK everyone, you can upgrade to the latest AI Source. I’ve gotten clarification on what you have to do.

After upgrading to the latest master for AI Sources do:
ant then after that is completed ant extensions and it should work.

If you get any errors from the console, just do ant extensions anyway after ant.

clashwithasif · March 20, 2019, 5:57am

this is the process for before the 1605 commit after 1605 commit i am able to build extensions i am looking for old source cuz in new on i am suck in importing external library

clashwithasif · March 20, 2019, 8:57am

i downloaded this and when i am trying to import external lib its give me error that cannot find symbol can u please share how to add external lib i tried this its not working for me How to Add a Component

hammerhai · March 20, 2019, 7:50pm

Well, that’s the old one.