The aiStarter program is installed on your computer when you install the App Inventor Setup software. It provides communication between App Inventor running in the browser, and other parts of App Inventor. Whenever you want to use the emulator or the USB cable, you need to make sure that aiStarter is running. If it is not running, you'll get an error message saying that aiStarter does not appear to be running. On Windows, there should be a button on your desktop that starts aiStarter. On the Mac, aiStarter should start automatically, so Mac users should not have to worry about this.

In case aiStarter somehow does need to be started manually on the Mac, find it using Spotlight, use the Finder to go to /Applications/AppInventor/commands-for-App, and double click on aiStarter. AiStarter is running correctly if the emulator (or USB) connect. If you want to diagnose a problem with aiStarter, try running aiStarter from the console. Bootable usb install for mac poweriso. Then, when you try to connect the emulator, the console output for aiStarter should show a sequence of 'probes' of the form 127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2013 11:28:30} 'GET /replstart/emulator-5554 HTTP/1.1' 2000 There might also be problems, like a message about blocked ports, or issues with the adb program. For a blocked port, check whether there is another program on the computer that is using the port. The adb (Android Debug Bridge) program runs on your computer, and controls attached Android devices. The the program can sometime get confused, especially if there are other issues with connections.

If you suspect a problem, open a console in the Commands to App Inventor directory, run the program adbrestart and see if that helps.

This page is deprecated. The emulator is now a built-in part of App Inventor Android provides an emulator so you can test apps on a virtual phone without downloading them to an actual Android device.

App Inventor's interactive testing process works with the emulator. Instead of connecting a phone using the USB port, just start up an emulator and then click 'Connect to Phone' from the App Inventor Blocks Editor. Your app will load in the emulator and you can test it from there. You'll need to download the Java Android SDK to use the emulator.

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Instructions are below. Stb emulator without mac address free. Download the app to your computer.

This will create a file with the extension.apk (an android package). Open a different terminal window than the one that started the emulator and run the install command. If you downloaded the app (.apk file) into the Downloads folder, you'll type: adb install -r Downloads/Purr.apk c. Be careful the second time you download the same app-- on some systems it will be given a different name such as Purr(2).apk. The abd install program doesn't allow parenthesis in file names, so you'll probably want to rename it on your computer before installing it on the emulator.