Practical answers to every question between "I have a ZIP of my project" and "my app is installed" — or on Google Play. Each guide opens with the one-sentence answer, then the detail, then a checklist.
Zipping a project, uploading it, and getting a signed APK — the core route.
The whole route from a ZIP of web files to a signed APK on a phone, in the order the steps arrive.
8 min readThe folder layout and the compress steps on each OS that put index.html where the builder expects it.
6 min readThe browser route from HTML to a signed APK, with nothing installed — and what it gives up.
7 min readBlank screens, offline limits, icons and splash screens: making the converted app right.
Seven reasons a converted app opens to nothing, in order of likelihood, each with the fix.
7 min readBundled pages have no origin. The complete list of what that changes, and the workaround for each.
7 min readOne square image becomes seven icon sizes and a masked adaptive icon; here is how to design it so nothing is cropped.
6 min readReact, Vue, Vite and Angular builds, and HTML5 games, as ZIPs that convert.
Base path, script format, hash routing: the three settings that let a dist folder become an APK.
8 min readPhaser, Construct, GDevelop or plain canvas: the export settings and the phone-specific details that make a game feel native.
7 min readWhat the signature is, and getting the APK onto phones outside a store.
The AAB, the listing, review, and shipping updates.
Why Play wants an AAB, the account, every listing asset and form, and what review actually checks for a WebView app.
9 min readSame package name, same key, higher versionCode, new ZIP. Everything else about shipping a new version.
5 min readUpload the ZIP of your HTML project, pick a name and an icon, and download a signed Android APK. Free, in the browser, no Android Studio.
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