The Big Wishlist

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 4:20pm

Hey there,

I want to share some of my suggestions + all of the suggestions reported by all users from the community for Makeroid.

My point is to get all these features and components to Makeroid and make Makeroid the primary and the best App Inventor clone of all time compared to other builders.

Index

Components

- Amazon Ads Component
- Survey Component
- Maps Section like App Inventor’s (Development in progress, reported by @Mika)
- ~~KitchenSink Component (Denied, reported by @Mika)~~
- FTP Manager Component
- Cloud Services Components: Google Drive & Dropbox
- ~~Google Cloud Messaging Component (Denied, reported by @Ben)~~
- Battery Sensor Component

Features

- The ability to copy created screens
- Highlight supported tutorial
- Search Bar on Toolbar
- iOS Support for Makeroid
- Java Source of the Block Codes

Components

Amazon Ads Component

To extend the monetization options on Makeroid.

Status: Waiting developer response.

adamazon

Survey Component

To give developers the option to collect information and their users’ opinions of something.
they will ask.

Status: Waiting developer response.

Maps Section like App Inventor’s

To extend the Google Maps component features.

Status: Development in progress (reported by @Mika)

mapscomponents

KitchenSink Component

~~To edit the androidmanifest.xml file of the project.~~

Status: Denied (reported by @Mika)

kitchensink

FTP Manager Component

To access a FTP account and edit, view files just from an app.

Status: Waiting developer response.

Cloud Services Components: Google Drive & Dropbox

to Access our favorite Cloud Services from an app.

Status: Waiting developer response.

cloudstorage

Google Cloud Messaging

~~To create a messaging app with Google Cloud Messaging.~~

Status: Denied. (Reported by @Ben)

Battery Sensor Component

To get Battery information.

Status: Approved. (Reported from the wishlist padlet.)

Features

The ability to copy created screens

To copy created screens and duplicate it to edit it.

Status: Approved. (Reported from the wishlist padlet.)

https://padlet.com/sanderjochems/makeroid_wishlist

To add search function to the app. To search something in a ListView, or in a Firebase Database.

Status: Waiting developer response.

iOS Support for Makeroid

To Develop iOS apps using the same Builder UI.

Status: In discussion by Makeroid developers. (Reported by @Sander)

Java Source of the Block Codes

~~To see the original Java code of the code created with the Blocks Editor.~~

Status: Denied.

Higlight supported tutorial

To higlight some spots and give information about it to the user.

Status: Approved. (Reported by @pavi2410)

Peter · January 6, 2018, 4:24pm

How long is your wishlist?

The developers of Makeroid are doing this as a hobby. Chance that everything you want is realised is slim i guess.

Maybe give them some room to first clear the bugs that are there and get the builder working again.

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 4:25pm

I just suggest these for them to note. In time, they can do it if they want.

Remember, just a Wishlist

Note: Not spam for the community.

Peter · January 6, 2018, 4:28pm

Putting al those wishes into seperate topics can pressure the developers to much. Even putting them into one topic could do that. Is everything so important for you and would you use everything you ask for. Maybe set priorities or collect them for yourself and post them when the time is right.

I know you don’t mean bad but even i think when i see a new topic with your name on it, that you have something new to wish.

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 4:30pm

OK, but I post these just for the Developers to add their list. So they can try and implement on their free time.

Not pressure and not spam

The reason I’m posting on seperate posts is to organize all ideas.

Peter · January 6, 2018, 4:30pm

It looks like you should use AppyBuilder. You want everyone of their components. Please stop opening topics.

Peter · January 6, 2018, 4:30pm

This is not organizing. I will try to put them all in one topic.

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 4:32pm

OK, you can. I will post other ideas on the topic you’re going to create. Sorry .

My main target is to make Makeroid the best App Inventor clone out of all others.

pavi2410 · January 6, 2018, 4:40pm

Let me show what we are working on + more things

Not guaranteed that all of them will release

Ravi · January 6, 2018, 4:48pm

Adding more and more components makes the application size large. Already a simple application without any assets has nearly 2.5 Mb. If adding more the size will increase and adding assets for your application, it may cross the size limitation(10 Mb). Most of these components can be added by extension developed by extension developers. I will suggest only the components that not exist.

pavi2410 · January 6, 2018, 4:50pm

True.

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 4:52pm

Components not used by the user, do they change the app size?

If yes, why not include that component only when the user adds to their project?

pavi2410 · January 6, 2018, 4:59pm

Yes, all components are actually compiled into all the apps, no matter which or how many components the app contains. So we try to add new components judiciously.

We can’t do that because of the design on which App Inventor is based on. Adding all the components facilitates the live debugging in the companion app. There are ways to solve this but require a lot of changes to how App Inventor build server works.

Mika · January 6, 2018, 5:02pm

I think you can remove kitchensink from the wishlist, because we allready have the most things of it.
“Maps Section like App Inventor’s” is almost finished.

pavi2410 · January 6, 2018, 5:09pm

Sorry, I messed up some posts.

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 5:48pm

Deleted the posts you’ve recovered.

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 5:48pm

Edited post.

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 5:49pm

How about other suggestions?

Are you working on some of them?

If no, which ones you’ve accepted and which ones you’ve denied?

Mika · January 6, 2018, 5:50pm

Current I can not say which we will include.
It needs a time to develope a new component.

TurboProgramming · January 6, 2018, 5:53pm

OK, waiting for your response on the current status of these Compononts suggestions.

If there is a new update on these, please reply to this post so I can edit it.

By doing this the development of these components is going to be lightning fast .