Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 25 minutes ago
How to use MIT AppInventor 2 without having to be connected to the internet or logging with a google account or suffering from slow speed and possibly data loss from unstable WiFi.
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Download the portable version AI2U for free from sourceforge.net/projects/ai2u/files - THANK YOU, DEVELOPERS!
There is an official offline/Windows server version but seems to be extremely non-portable unfortunately (can only run if in C:\Program Files (x86)/ ?
How to use MIT AppInventor 2 without having to be connected to the internet or logging with a google account or suffering from slow speed and possibly data loss from unstable WiFi.
Subscribe for gamedev updates: bit.ly/qubodev
Download the portable version AI2U for free from sourceforge.net/projects/ai2u/files - THANK YOU, DEVELOPERS!
There is an official offline/Windows server version but seems to be extremely non-portable unfortunately (can only run if in C:\Program Files (x86)/ ?






![Custom Imagebuttons instead of Basic Textbuttons in RenPy Main Menu Guide
Image buttons in RenPy game main menu for a more unique look without messing up the pause menu (too much).
0:00 This is what were working towards
0:10 Intro
0:22 RenPy project start
0:48 Default menu look
0:55 Menu background image
1:37 Resizing background image
2:41 Cut my image into buttons, this is my last resort
5:33 Export layers as images in GIMP
7:33 _hover versions of buttons
8:47 imagebutton instead of textbutton
10:35 get x/y position of buttons
11:40 imagebutton xpos and y position
12:32 button hover click sound*
13:40 save (load) button
15:45 vbox image position messed up fix
17:13 Shift-R (autoreload changes in RenPy)
19:16 Fixing imagebuttons on top of game menu
* You dont actually need the [ rectangular/square paranthesis ] after hovered. Those are only needed if hovering the button is supposed to call multiple (comma-separated) functions.
How to install GIMP https://youtu.be/pWCSqigOaCk
Complete click sound effect tutorial https://youtu.be/5nw8qOCjNls
Thanks to @tyras_extra_bagelization and @cannibal.chrollo for posting at https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments/nm1cec/how_do_i_make_the_buttons_like_they_are_in_the/ and for permission to use the nice menu image in a tutorial Custom Imagebuttons instead of Basic Textbuttons in RenPy Main Menu Guide](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q5svrv2KN8g/mqdefault.jpg)



