About an hour ago, an email with the subject “” landed in my inbox. I was thrilled and immediately opened the App Inventor website. First I looked for the New button that appeared on the page linked in the email. In the end I clicked on MyProjects, where the button was waiting. I created a project called “sunamo“. I changed the text of the only component that was already there and clicked Open CodeBlock and Sent to my Phone.
Only after I closed FF did I realize that it was running in the background without a taskbar icon. The application loaded, but I could not get it to connect to my phone, save an .apk, or even send it directly to the phone. In the top right corner, I kept getting an irritating message: “cannot connect to your phone“.
So I closed it. Then I tried to open it again, but the wait is very long. Google says that a somewhat longer wait is normal, but I think this is too much. On top of that, I still have not managed to open it, and this message started popping up: “please locate the adb command …“.
I found out that all it takes is renaming something or removing the memory card. I could not remove the memory card, and I have no idea what to rename.
That is where things stand for now. You can follow how it develops on The page moved away and left no forwarding address. or here on this posterous. I believe I will manage to get App Inventor working satisfactorily, or else I will simply work in eclipse…