Are you an extension developer? If so, you know how tedious it can be to properly document all the blocks and functionality in your extensions. The manual process of capturing screenshots, describing each block, and compiling it into comprehensive documentation is very time-consuming.
Well, there’s good news! A new tool called the Extension Documentation Generator makes it incredibly easy to automatically generate complete documentation for your AIX extensions with just a single click.
Features
With this handy tool, all you have to do is upload the extension here and this tool will analyse the extension and produce a full set of documentation, including:
Detailed descriptions of every block in your extension
Clear images/screenshots of each block’s appearance
Listings of the block properties, inputs, and outputs
The generated documentation is professionally formatted so that you can easily share it with the community.
Not only does this save you huge amounts of time and effort compared to manually documenting everything, but it ensures your documentation is comprehensive and accurate. No more unintentionally leaving out important details!
Important
This tool does not store your extension anywhere nor does the developer of this website have access to any extension uploaded here. But still, if you are insecure about uploading your paid extension here, you can simply delete classes.jar and AndroidRuntime.jar from your extension (.aix) file before uploading it here.
Currently helper blocks are not supported by this tool. However, I’ll look forward to add support for it in future.
→ Changed block colours. Now they are the same as in AppInventor2.
→ Added option to save documentation as a PDF file.
→ Fixed the extension name not written on Event Blocks.
wow! it’s really cool! high-quality presentation of the material. then you can finish the change with pens… but I’m still copying blocks the same way… In general, it’s a mind-blowing thing! now the extension can be quickly designed, which means it can be stamped in batches :)!
Unfortunately, in the course of several attempts to apply it, it is almost impossible to put it into practice. At first, I assumed that I could add additional text entries, but it was impossible. writing to pdf format turned out to be an absolutely useless thing in my opinion. there is no point in editing it. of all the things that are offered, this is the creation of graphic blocks. This is, yes, great. beautiful and signed pictures. otherwise, it turned out to be useless for me due to the lack of editing or saving to something where it can be done. and now the copying - the pictures are disappearing. As a result, it’s not as practical as it seemed to me at first. it will probably have to be the old-fashioned way - without this generator.
maybe I didn’t understand something. But I haven’t figured out how to apply it.
Features
Important
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New Features:
Helper Block Support: The tool now supports generating documentation for helper blocks.
Improvements:
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it will probably have to be the old-fashioned way - without this generator.