Google Blockly Summit 2019 Recap
Oct 15, 2019 evan's Blog
Last week I attended the Google Blockly Summit 2019. For those of you who might not know what Blockly is, it is the JavaScript library that powers ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ App Inventor’s blocks editor (also Scratch, Microsoft MakeCode, Code.org and many more). The summit was a two day event at Google’s Mountain View campus with . I gave two talks at the summit, one focused on how we’ve worked to in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ App Inventor and another on our work to on projects by multiple developers.
Some talks that I found particularly interesting were Beka Westberg’s talk on custom fields, Mark Gibson’s talk on advanced typechecking for block connections, Mark Friedman’s talk on asynchronicity and the challenge of a delay block, and the MakeCode team’s talks on block design and debugging.
There are a lot of new features coming to Blockly, and we’re looking forward to being able to incorporate them into a future version of App Inventor.
Above: A picture of some of the Blockly Summit 2019 attendee’s outside the meeting room at Google’s Mountain View campus.
I also picked up an Android at the Google Store, which is now on display in the App Inventor offices:
Above: A model of the Google Android built from blocks.
This post will be updated with links to the recorded presentations once they are available.