Month: November 2022

Steps to add Play Games Services to HTML5/Cordova App

NG Android, Code, Cordova, How to, JavaScript, Mobile, Plugin, Useful

If you have made an HTML5 game and have compiled the game to an APK using Cordova and now want to add Play Games Services to your app to use Leaderboard and Achievements from Play Games Services, you need to follow a set of steps to make it work. If you want to learn how to use cordova to compile HTML5 game to an APK and publish to the Google Play Store, follow the steps @ https://www.netexl.com/blog/use-cordova-to-compile-html5-games-to-android-app/ Assuming that we have installed all tools for cordova on our system and can compile the game to the APK, we will follow next steps for the Play Games Services integration. First we need to find a cordova plugin which integrates the Play Game Services API and add it to our project. Go to NPM and search for the latest plugin for the Play Game Services integration. If you have not already created[…]

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Mouse/Touch Events getting called twice on Mobile devices

NG Code, HTML5, Issue, JavaScript, Mobile

I recently wrote a HTML5 webgame utilizing simple canvas apis and added both mouse events and touch events to make sure it can be played on both desktop as well as mobile devices which led to the issue on mobile where touch events were getting called twice and not just once. The code I used to add events was as following It seemed like mouse events were geting called in addition to the touch events. After debugging this issue for hours and trying many suggestions found online, nothing worked so I switched to simply add only one set of events based on the device type. If it is mobile, call touch events and if it is desktop, call mouse events. Here is the modifed code I used which is wroking perfectly on both mobile and desktop devices.

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