Category: How to

How to fill “Data Safety” section on Google Play for AdMob?

Admin AdMob, How to, Mobile

If your app does not collect any user information, but uses Admob for advertisement in your Android app, you will still need to fill out the “Data Safety” section in your play store app listing. AdMob has provided some information on how to complete the “Data Safety” section in Play Store by providing information on end-user data collected by the Google Mobile Ads SDK. https://developers.google.com/admob/android/play-data-disclosure Though the information seems adequate, filling out form on Play Store still seems somewhat cumbersome task. Here is step-by-step details of what all should we be filling out in the “Data Safety” section. Start with first three questions, we need to select “Yes” for all. Click “Next” button to go to “Data types” page and answer further questions Nothing to be selected for following headers Personal info Financial info Health and fitness Messages Photos and videos Audio files Files and docs Calendar Contacts Nothing for[…]

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Configure to use Adaptive Icons in Cordova

Admin Android, Cordova, How to, Mobile, Quick Tip, Useful

Adaptive icons require API 26 or above. We use a combination of legacy icons as well as adaptive icons to serve users who are using Android versions below 26 as well as those using 26 or above. Android will use Adaptive icons for API 26 or above and fallback to use legacy icons for devices with API below 26. For this tutorial we will create icon set using an online service https://easyappicon.com/. Create icon set using the service and download the set. You should see the icons in two folders; Android and iOS. For his tutorial we will use Android icon set. Go inside the folder and you would see folders as following Let us also create an Android app using Cordova as described in the previous article https://www.netexl.com/blog/use-cordova-to-compile-html5-games-to-android-app/ Create a new app by using the command as following A basic skeleton cordova project is created This is the bare[…]

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Use Cordova to compile HTML5 games to Android App

Admin Android, Cordova, How to, HTML5, Mobile, Useful

Install npm and cordova https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm It is also useful to insall nvm which is node version manager to manage different versions of node.js. For windows the installable can be downloaded from here https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/releases check version of node, npm and, cordova using the commands as following Once nvm is installed it can be used to check for installed version of node by using the command On windows use following command to see available versions on node If a higher version of node is available it can be installed by specifying the version as following Configure the system to use the installed version of node now Cordova install and update Update npm to the latest version by specifying the version number All of the above commands are specified to make sure that we have latest version of node, npm, nvm, cordova installed before we start creating packages for our HTML5 game. Version[…]

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Quick Tip

Download iPhone Crash Log to PC

NG How to, iOS, Mobile, Quick Tip

Following are the steps – Install iTunes on your PC. Connect your iPhone to your PC using its USB cable. Open iTunes. It will automatically recognize your iPhone. Click “iPhone” under “Devices.” Click the “Sync” button in the bottom right corner of the window. This will transfer all iPhone crash logs to your PC. Go to C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice. This will have a folder with your phone’s name. Go to your phone folder and then look for the app name whose crash log you are looking for.

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Symbolicate iOS App Analytics Data

NG How to, iOS

When a crash happens in an app, and we get un-symbolicated logs from a remote user, we need to first symbolicate it in order to find out exact reason of the crash. We need following items in in order to symbolicate a crash log Log file – This file can be taken from the real device on which app crashed. .app file – Download archive file (.ipa) to a folder and rename it to .zip. Unzip content and copy .app file. dSYM File – This file can be retreived from the app ipa file. Open XCode -> Window -> Organizer -> Find the Archive file, right click on the Archive file and click “Show in Finder” which will open .xcarchive file in finder. Right click on .xcarchive and click “Show Package Contents”. Go to dSYMs folder and copy dSYM file for the archive. Create a new folder on your mac and[…]

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Quick Tip

Add Phaser 2 style buttons in Phaser 3

NG How to, JavaScript, Phaser, Quick Tip

Phaser 2 had a very convenient way of adding buttons to a state. Phaser 3 has got rid of those buttons but if we want to keep the habit of adding buttons in Phaser 3 scenes like we used to in Phaser 2, following lines will help achieve it. Phaser.Scene.prototype.addButton = function (x, y, key, callback, callbackContext, overFrame, outFrame, downFrame) { // add a button let btn = this.add.sprite(x, y, key, outFrame).setInteractive(); btn.on(‘pointerover’, function (ptr, x, y) { this.setFrame(overFrame); }); btn.on(‘pointerout’, function (ptr) { this.setFrame(outFrame); }); btn.on(‘pointerdown’, function (ptr) { this.setFrame(downFrame); }); btn.on(‘pointerup’, callback.bind(callbackContext, btn)); return btn; }; Above piece of code can now be used var button = this.addButton(100, 100, ‘buttons’, this.clickButton, this, overFrame, outFrame, downFrame); clickButton event can be defined as following clickButton(button) { // use this to access scene // button is also available as the first param }  

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