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How to Download MIT app inventor free on windows.

MIT app inventor is a tool that allows people from any background, even with no programming experience, to create their own apps. It includes a wide range of features and an easy-to-use interface.

Isn’t it great? For a non-programmer, it’s an amazing way to create your own application.

Today, we are going to give you all the information that you need about how to download the MIT app Inventor for free on your Windows machine.

Let’s see how this can be achieved.

What is MIT App Inventor

MIT app inventor is a free and open-source application with which you can design, create and publish your own Android mobile apps. It’s now available for Windows as well as Mac OS X! You can use the program to make apps for smartphones and tablets, as well as for Google TV devices.

The best part of using MIT app inventor is you can use this software without any internet services. It means you can develop without the internet. That’s Insane!

Now let’s see how you can download it free of charge on windows.

Steps to Get MIT App Inventor on Windows
Before installing the MIT app inventor it’s very important to know that you perform the installation from an account that has administrator privileges.

This will install the software for all users of the machine. If you do not have administrator privileges, the installation should still work, but App Inventor will be usable only from the account you used when you installed it.

Following are the easy steps to download MIT app inventor:

Step 1: To download the MIT app inventor it’s not that easy. You have to take the help of a third-party site. Simply go to the SourceForge site. It’s a 100% trustworthy site from where you can download.

Step 2: Don’t click on the DOWNLOADABLE button. Click on the files where you will get the updated MIT app inventor. Simply choose whatever you feel good. It’s highly recommendable to choose the updated version.

Step 3: After clicking on the updated version now you will see two folders i.e. Portable and Installer. You have to click on the Portable folder.

Step 4: Now you will see 3 zip folders based on your operating system i.e. 32 or 64 or 42. You have to choose depending upon your laptop operating system. Please check your operating system or a bit before downloading.

Step 5: It’s downloading. You have to wait for a few minutes as it is 523MB( almost half GB) depending upon your internet speed.

Step 6: After downloading, here you can see the folder i.e. AI2U-portable-v4.6-64bit.zip. This is a zip folder you have to extract this wherever you want.

Step 7: I have made a new folder where I have extracted this zip folder. You can see this in the image.

Step 8: Click on the AI2U.exe folder. just see on the image. You have to click on the first one i.e. All AI2U Server.

Step 9: After clicking on this folder 3 terminals will be open. You can see this in the image.

Step 10: After opening 3 terminals you have to click on start invent and that’s it. Your MIT app inventor is installed and now you can develop amazing applications without using the internet.

Step 11: Develop your first app 🙂

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