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Appinventor using #! (CrungBang) Linux in a VMware Virtual Machine

3/24/2012 Updated Vmware file

This project allows you to run the MIT (formerly Google) Appinventor application and build server in a VMware virtual machine on your Windows computer. The VMware virtual machine should be runable on any VMware environment but this procedure is specific to Windows users.

The project file is a fully self contained Appinventor personal private server for developing and building the Android applications. The virtual machine is a slimmed down installation of Crunch distribution that has been configured for and runs the March 2012 version of the Google SDK, MIT Appinventor server and Build Server.

There are two required free tools to run this project.

  1. 7Zip or something that can uncompress the .7z project file http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

  2. VMware Player for Windows https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=player&lp=1&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cts=1331574823450&ved=0CFIQFjAB&url=http://www.vmware.com/go/get-player&ei=IDheT8_iBZT1sQKokaTJDQ&usg=AFQjCNEwKyo0kD9RFZK0VTvQ5t7j4nI_RQ&sig2=LGTSgdVQu9hOBC66d_c6PA

Additional Recommended Tools

TeraTerm ssh client http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/ttssh2/releases/
and/or
Putty SSH client http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Cygwin for Linux tools n your Windows computer http://www.cygwin.com/

Proceed to the setup page: https://sourceforge.net/p/appinventor/wiki/Setup/

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