Garden Gnome Software

Hi All,

I figured that I would demonstrate......key word......demonstrate my workflow for converting Pano2vr projects to an APK (without size restrictions) that can be uploaded to Google Play for download.

The latter part requires a developers license and 3 more steps but is not complicated. I do not show how to publish to the Play Store but instructions on how can be found online and are pretty easy to follow.

With that said, you will need a number of programs and files to get this working....such as:

• Android Studio

• Cordova for Win or MAC

• a bunch of other things that I can't remember

You may be asking yourself, "Courtney, why even show your workflow if you don't explain everything needed in order for someone to follow?" and I would say to you, "That is a great question!" The answer is that once I started installing cordova and attempted to run the cmd commands as shown in the video, I would get an error. I would search out the error and find the fix online. This took a couple of days, but in the end....it works as expected

Your mileage WILL vary

https://youtu.be/wH22V4BmPvU

Good luck to all who attempt!!!

Should also add that without the help from Tony Redhead's original tutorial https://tonyredhead.com/phonegap-build/ ... rs-android that I would have never figured this APK stuff out. Thanks for that Tony!!!

thats great ,i will try

thats great ,i will try

Hey, let me know how you fair

Here is a video of me showing that the same apk that was created in the video above works on my Galaxy S9 Plus. I am 100% sure now that the reason it didn't work on my wife's phone is because you have to build the apk with a minimum target Android version and the version I was using by default is 8 and my wife's phone is still on kitkat I believe..

https://youtu.be/RPZ1YTZvs3c

Cool, looks great

Thanks Tony! I was merely standing on the shoulders of giants on that one

Excellent result!

When converting to a native Android app does it mean the tour will run locally on your phone, i.e. you don't need an internet connection anymore?

I managed to convert one of my virtual tours to an APK and it works perfectly fine. The only issue I have is that the tour starts in full screen mode and since my Android phone doesn't have a home button there is no way to close the tour once it's started.

Still figuring out a way to deal with this. Other than that it works flawlessly.

Next step is deploying a tour on iOS.

Roland wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:42 am I managed to convert one of my virtual tours to an APK and it works perfectly fine. The only issue I have is that the tour starts in full screen mode and since my Android phone doesn't have a home button there is no way to close the tour once it's started.

Still figuring out a way to deal with this. Other than that it works flawlessly.

Next step is deploying a tour on iOS.

Hi,
Was this done on apache cardova or any other method?

amrithpq wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:27 am

Roland wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:42 am I managed to convert one of my virtual tours to an APK and it works perfectly fine. The only issue I have is that the tour starts in full screen mode and since my Android phone doesn't have a home button there is no way to close the tour once it's started.

Still figuring out a way to deal with this. Other than that it works flawlessly.

Next step is deploying a tour on iOS.

Hi,
Was this done on apache cardova or any other method?

Hi,

Yes, on Apache Cordova, following the instructions of the topic starter.