AI-Kit

Command line tool for App Inventor project files.

AI-Kit allows doing several tasks to App Inventor project files, (also known as AIA files) and written in Python. Using AI-Kit on your project edits your .aia file instead of creating a new edited one. So please backup your project file first before using in AI-Kit.

Here is the list of available tasks in AI-Kit.

• Clean-up It can find the non-referenced assets and can delete them. It scans .bky, .scm and project.properties files and checks if asset name is used already.

• Repair Sometimes project files can be corrupted due to several reasons. However, AI-Kit can fix the "project in project" error by deleting multiple files.

How to use?

As AI-Kit is written in Python, you need to have Python in your computer. It is only tested on Python 3.8 yet.

1. Install Python to your OS, download the app.py file and open your favourite terminal.
2. Type python app.py and add one (or more) of these parameters:

--file or -f

Specifies the file path of the project (.aia) file. Required Example: --file "project.aia"

--repair or -r

Repairs the project by deleting unwanted files. Fixes the "project in project" situation.

--cleanup or -c

Cleans the non-used assets from project by looking the references in Screen files.

Examples

Repair a project file named myproject.aia:

python app.py -f "myproject.aia" -r

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Commands may vary depending on your operating system. However you can use short forms of commands (example: -r) as it works under Windows and GNU/Linux very well.