What is the best way to export to Android?

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I made a game in Phaser and would like to export it to Android. What is the best way to do this? What tools should I use?

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I think it will be specific to your game, there probably isnā€™t a ā€˜bestā€™ and frankly there are so many options itā€™s hard to say. In terms of ease of use, Cordova is pretty popular and there are tutorials available, Emanuel Feranato offers a tutorial on using Cordova to create 2048 for android using Phaser 3.22.0. Off the top of my head I also know there are some examples/tuts using Ionic and React on phaser.io as well. In terms of ā€˜bestā€™ I would think ones that are most popular would be best simply because they will have continued support, which is at least for me, the greatest concern when choosing a framework.

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Agree. I donā€™t think there is any ā€œbestā€ way. You can use Capacitor. I donā€™t have any experience with that but itā€™s one of the alternative out there.

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+1 for Capacitor

It is like a modernized Cordova and still has ability to use cordovaā€™s plugins. But on the other hand it has bunch of basic native capabilities build in already, so you donā€™t need plugins at the early stage of development at all. Also it uses Android Studio to build and debug project (as I know Cordova used its own build scripts) - so it is more transparent and you as a dev simply see what is going on under the hood during the process.

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If you use Cordova or Capacitor to turn your app native, you go with a slow webview.
If you use a PWA, you get Chrome as your engine. And with Bubblewrap you can still publish on any store.
So donā€™t go native. Use PWA (PWA Builder (Bubblewrap), or Capacitor PWA, which uses Bubblewrap (I think).

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So how you put in the app store then?

Itā€™s still Google and Apple monopoly

Switching from Cordova to Capacitorā€¦

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Bubblewrap turns it into a APK.