Celeste-Classic-PICO-8-Android

This is a step-by-step tutorial to use your PICO-8 cartridges on your Android phone, let's begin shall we?

using google translate

At the beginning of the year I started using PICO-8 when I found out that Celeste was born from such a simple concept. The first thing I could discover using PICO is that you can export to html...

if you can use HTML you can visualize it directly on Android using a tool called WebView.

This is a step-by-step tutorial to use your PICO-8 cartridges on your Android phone, let's begin shall we?

What do we need:

• Android Studio(https://developer.android.com/studio/).
• Your PICO-8 html cartridge (html and js).

Now we need to understand what we are going to do:

1. create an application on Android (the classic helloworld: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/).
2. Add the WebView tool to your app (https://jgvcodigo.blogspot.com/2017/12/webview-android.html).
3. Add the controls on the html file of your cartridge. You can use the following template and call your .js file:

https://github.com/headjump/pico8_html_template (awesome morningtoast post: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30147)

4)Finally add your html and js file inside your android project: C: \ Users \ AndroidStudioProjects \ YOUR_PROYECT \ app \ src \ main \ assets

This is the line that made the magic: myWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/YOUR_GAME.html"); This line sends your html.

MainActivity.java

package com..;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;import android.os.Bundle;import android.webkit.WebView;


public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        WebView myWebView = (WebView) this.findViewById(R.id.webView);
        myWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/YOUR_GAME.html");
    }
}

So as you can see we are calling a simple html on android to be able to show our game. It seems the easiest way to have your first android application working.

And you don´t need as much knowledge to publish your Pico-8 game on Google play.

I leave my code so you can steal it ...

It has a couple of extra lines such as having ads or integrated purchases.

Let me know what you think!!!!!!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.demilion.a20