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Can you port to the Google Play Store?

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:23 pm
by redx96
Hello, I've been reading about the Love-Andriod port and have a few questions:
1)Can you put the completed game on the Google Player Store?
2)Can you put ads into the game?
3)Are there any tutorials for a basic game, or any links to code documentation?

Thank you for your time,
Redx

Re: Can you port to the Google Play Store?

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 11:08 am
by jjmafiae
Yes you can put it on google play

I don't think it's possible to have ads

Löve and löve android is the same, you don't need any special instructions unless you are talking about .apk

Re: Can you port to the Google Play Store?

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 11:10 am
by Joemag
Hello,
1) Yes, you can put games on the Play Store. There are already some löve games on the Play store (Here is my game)
2) It should be possible to put ads by adding it to the java code but not with lua.
3)

Re: Can you port to the Google Play Store?

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:58 pm
by redx96
Thank you so much for the replies, this will help a ton!
-Redx

Re: Can you port to the Google Play Store?

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:40 pm
by alberto_lara
Dat eggs... haha cool.

I have one question, can I purchase my developer registration with a debit card from a Bank of my country? Or the card must be from certain banks?

I'm from Mexico, can I use a google play gift card to do this?

Re: Can you port to the Google Play Store?

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 2:28 pm
by Ensayia
There are instructions on the love-android-sdl2 wiki for adding in AdMob support if you must have ads. The currently provided instructions for packaging a LOVE game into a standalone APK file are for Arch Linux, and I highly recommend having a dedicated machine or setting up a VM for building your binaries. The provided scripts from the repo will help you create a signing key, and then zipalign, sign, and pack your game into an APK file for distribution on Google Play.

Having just recently submitted a game and gotten it approved, you are welcome to e-mail me at ensayia@gmail.com with any and all questions you might have. :awesome:

Re: Can you port to the Google Play Store?

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:48 am
by Davidobot
Regarding ads: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=78302 (Warning: very much untested)

Re: Can you port to the Google Play Store?

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:05 am
by Positive07
Ensayia wrote:The currently provided instructions for packaging a LOVE game into a standalone APK file are for Arch Linux
There are instructions on how to create debug apks for other architectures too... not signed thought (but there are no wiki pages for signed either)