conversion project AI in AI2

[gius]

Hello everyone,
there is news on the tool that can convert project app inventor classic in project app inventor 2?

thanks

[SteveJG]

MIT anticipated creating an AI to AI2 conversion tool before the end of 2014.  That did not happen.  Early this year, there were signs a tool might be released this Spring. That is NOT going to happen.

When will a conversion tool be available?   MIT has not said when the tool will be available in 2015,probably after the current school Spring term in the Summer 2015 but possibly never. 

 When the tool is released, the tool may not be a panacea; that is the tool might not provide a complete conversion.   Advice here is to manually update your app now.  There will be an announcement when it is released.

The following general instructions may help convert an AI Classic app to an AI2 app:

AI to AI2 conversion

To convert AI Classic blocks to App Inventor 2 blocks, the advice in Scott's link might help...the link outlines some of the differences between AI Classic and AI2:

 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/app-inventor-developers-library/Classic$20/app-inventor-developers-library/BFtMa0BpJq8/tY_9ZCXbtH8J

This second link talks about differences between Ai Classic and the new stuff in AI2  http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/whats-new.html  

The AI2 free online eBook   http://www.appinventor.org/book2 ... the links are at the bottom of the Web page.will help you to learn to code with the AI2 blocks.   If you understand AI blocks, the conversion will not be difficult; just time consuming.

Prior to 2013, you coded in App Inventor (now called App Inventor Classic).  You can not directly convert AI Classic apps to AI2.    AI Classic source code is stored in zip files; AI2 in aia files (which are actually zip format).  The two source code files are totally incompatible.

To update the app from Classic to AI2 you can not use the apk.   You have to manually convert the AI Classic blocks to AI2 blocks and recompile in AI2.   When the conversion tool is released, it most probably will not perform miracles, users will have to fix things manually. 

So developers, why are you procrastinating...start manually converting now and enjoy the benefits of AI2.   The wait for the tool might be very long.

Regards,

Steve

[gius]

Thanks Steve for the reply,
I hope that MIT is able to make a tool to convert from AI to AI2,
I have too many projects to start all over again.

I wanted to ask you,
AppToMarket still works for you?
I have  XP SP3, JRE 1.7
during the procedure does not give me any error,
but if I install the apk file on the phone she tells me:
the application is not installed,
why?

thanks