Blockly: Using Block Based Coding in your App

Cory Diers introduces Blockly for visual programming. Blockly is a developer library that makes it easy to add, drag and drop block editor to any app on web, iOS, or Android. The editor represents coding concepts as interlocking blocks that users can drag around and quickly snap together. It outputs syntactically correct code in the language of your choice. Custom blocks may be created to connect to your own application.

You can read more on Blockly's developer docs or start hacking by downloading the web, iOS, or Android libraries from GitHub. For a more guided introduction, check out the iOS Codelab.

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[MaxGoddur]

Ran into Blockly and wanted to start playing with it right away. So I did a search on how to install Blockly but nothing came back. Well, the only thing I could find was how to download the code in Zip, tar file types. No instructions beyond the download. Can you help?

[peterbergman]

Does anyone know a code generator of Scratch to Javascript?

[rodrigocampelo]

Very good! Will be easier to learn how to code.

[fetchkart]

cool video but a doubt,
How to download it's apk file

[bashir]

Is it possible to integrate blockly into unity 2018???

[dennisdeberry]

I think this might be what I a looking for. My nephew asked me if I knew anything for making apps. I told him he would eventually have to learn java and how to use the Android sdk. BUT I just want to get him interested. So I need something really simple that he can just move blocks around and make connections and type in label e.t.c and THEN if he is still interested he can move on to java and the SDK.

[bhaveshmali]

Can i use this website in android or windows 10

[CoconutPete]

The irony of Blockly ... it's supposed to make it easier to code, but try installing Blockly locally and it's almost impossible. Why make it so difficult?

[luomanluo]

Why isn't blockly more visual like scratch as well as I think it can be even more powerful for other languages

[pramodvadrevu]

Just wondering why can't my kid learn directly a high-level language like Java, JavaScript, or Python just like I did. Why do we need this layer? I feel that the block-based coding is getting way fancier than it should be. What is the real value here?

[TheThirdComingofficial]

NO WAYYYY GOOGLE MADE A SCRTACH CLONE (this is a joke)

[roceb]

blockly is basically unusable on the modern web. it's about a half step above a flash plugin. doen't work with web components / Shadow Dom, there's no encapsulation at all and the state is all global, looks like Myspace from 2007, it's just terrible.

Don't bother