AI Starter

Is there any way to download the update files "offline" and install them , so that when a pupil starts the program for the first time they do not have to go through the process of updating the software

This is proving somewhat of an issue

When you say download files offline and install them I'm assuming that you are talking about the setup tools? You may install these first before anyone uses App Inventor. No need to have to do right before you start AI.

Let me try again. There are updates to the setup tools and then there are several tools in the setup tools that on occasion need to be updated for instance the emulator image. As we update the MIT AI Companion App for a component change we turn on a auto update feature that downloads this file for you. Currently we don't have an offline download and install for this but, I will think about it to see what we what we can do to make this easier. Our stance on this issue in general is to try and limit the number of updates to the setup tools to make it easier for large installations to have to update tools that don't need to be updated. I am making changes to the setup tools to fix a few issues we have found and will be including a new emulator image, but again I will give this some thought and see if we can streamline the process to make it less of an issue. There are trade offs to consider.