error building apk file

Hi everyone. for some reason whenever i try to build the apk file for this app i built it will do one of two things. 1) it will build the apk file but it will have 0 bytes and so when i try to email it to someone it wont let me attach to email at all, or 2) it gives me an error ___preparing icon error. does anyone know why? i've had this problem with a previous app and all i did to fix it was kept refreshing page and rebuilding until i got a working copy but for this app it doesnt seem to be working.



Whenever there's an issue with App Inventor, or an announcement you should see, we post it in App Inventor's Splash Screen.  It seems that few people bother to read the things posted right before their eyes... you don't even have to search for it.. it's right there in front of you, every time you start App Inventor!

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE SPLASH SCREEN AND THE MESSAGES POSTED THERE.  WE DON'T TAKE THE TIME TO WRITE THOSE THINGS UP, JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT!

If you're seeing this post, then please reload your AI browser tab and READ the message!

An example of the splash screen is below... Notice the RED BOX???

MIT App Inventor still has issues with the Google Cloud Storage, as mentioned in the red splash screen which results in missing assets, see also here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wQy_1uCsZDAXY51wElbMyfy8AJid_EOqklIX_ggzBJY/pub

What you can do meanwhile is 

1. wait until these issues are fixed, or

2. install a personal server and work completely offline. 

Krupong just updated AI2U, version 2.3 is now identical to the MIT App Inventor version nb139c as of Dec 13. Just download the 32 or 64 bit version here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ai2u/files/ai2u%202.3/, install it, start AI2U and your own personal server is up and running! Then just open your browser using the address http://localhost:8888 . That's all.

And btw. with your own personal server you also will be able to build projects larger than 5 MB. So what are you waiting for?