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Admob SKAdNetwork values are out of date

John — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:04:06 +0000

I got the following warning in my xCode output 9 required SKAdNetwork identifier(s) missing from Info.plist. Missing network(s): BidMachine, ironsource Ads, LINE Ads Network, Persona.ly Ltd., Pubmatic, StackAdapt, Verve, Viant, Zemanta. See [Enable SKAdNetwork to track conversions] (https://goo.gle/enable-skadnetwork). So, I went here: https://developers.google.com/admob/ios/quick-start And copied the SKAdNetworkItems key and its values to Info.plist and the warning went away. I take it that those that don't update this list manually will be missing out on these new ad network.

Record sound directly from channel ?

Yan — Mon, 06 May 2019 07:30:57 +0000

Is this possible to record sound via Microphone direct from sound channel ? How to achieve this ?

Gideros Wax Plugin Alive Again

troysandal — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:48:57 +0000

I'm trying to bring back an old game I wrote that relied very heavily on wax. Wax hasn't been supported in a long time so I took it upon myself to get it working again in Gideros. It's now compiling and running against both Lua 5.1 and Gideros Luau. There's still going to be some bugs but I'm happy to open it up for testing. To get Wax running in Gideros start at my BhGideros repo (name will probably change, sorry).

webp support

Bethleem — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:41:58 +0000

Is there any plugin to load webp images into gideros? Or a plan to add that format to the engine? Thx!

gplugin documentation

troysandal — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:35:43 +0000

I'm trying to build a gplugin file but am at a loss for how they work exactly. Is there any documentation? Specifically for the tag. Thanks in advance.

theora ogg plugin

keszegh — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:14:13 +0000

I thought that this plugin should have a thread, given that its documentation is quite rudimentary as of now: https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Ogg

Steam plugin documentation?

PaulH — Sun, 11 May 2025 03:12:45 +0000

I've been looking for some documentation for using the Steam plugin. I've never published to Steam, but I think it's time to get a couple of my games on there. I'd appreciate any advice from those publishing there, in particular anything I should know about using the plugin? Is there documentation I'm overlooking?

Proper Lua Crash Logging for Gideros

bowerandy — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:25:52 +0000

Folks, Some time ago, following @atilim 's request, I added Crittercism crash logging to my app under development. Imagine my surprise when I found nothing in the logs following several "crashes". This was, of course, because these crashes I'd experienced weren't actually caused by real exceptions at all but rather they were "just" Lua errors. Unfortunately, in such circumstances Gideros just prints a stack trace to the console and then exits normally. Nothing get's sent to Crittercism for later perusal. Recently, I got down to sorting this out and I've now written a plugin that allows you to detect Lua crashes *and* get hold of the Lua stack trace when things went wrong. You can find full details and a download link for the plugin in this blog article: http://bowerhaus.eu/blog/files/luacrashlogging.html As you'll see if you read the article, I found that neither Crittercism nor BugSense are suitable for this purpose and I opted for Crashlytics. This is no bad thing, since it turns out that Crashlytics is now completely free to use. Here's a short (two-line) stack dump that shows how it appears in the Crashlytics dashboard (newlines are replaced by *** markers): Note that the plugin, as it stands, is written for iOS. However, there's nothing in there that should preclude an easy port to Android. If anyone manages to do this, please let me know. best regards

is Gmedia working on Android?

Xman — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:56:18 +0000

I used Gmedia plugin years ago and it worked well. It seems the new android has changed to the photo picker, and the apis it used are from AppCompatActivity, is it possible implement the functions in Gmedia plugin? https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/photopicker#java

json plugin escape special chars?

giovifav — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:22:41 +0000

Hi, the json plugin escape special chars or we need to deal with it before conversion ? thanks

Is anyone using Flurry for crash reporting?

simwhi — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:42:19 +0000

Hi guys, We are getting quite a lot of crashes in our flagship app that we want to resolve quickly. So, I've been looking at using Flurry as a short term solution. We decided to use Flurry because we want to turn off crash reporting in the EEA to be GDPR compliant. I've taken a look at the plugin but the methods are depreciated. I want to add the following new FlurryAgent.Builder() .withLogEnabled(true) .withCaptureUncaughtExceptions(true) .withContinueSessionMillis(10000) .withLogLevel(Log.VERBOSE) .build(this, FLURRY_API_KEY); } I managed to get it reporting. I also discovered that crash reporting for iOS is disabled by default. Is anyone using Flurry?

password key derivation function in crypto plugin?

giovifav — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:38:08 +0000

Hi, i'm developing a stateless password manager and encrypted notebook in lua. i wuold love to use gideros to deploy it! there are any chanches to have a password key derivation function ( like argon2 or pkdf2 ) in the crypto plugin ? thanks! Edit: or maybe another plugin based on github.com/thibaultcha/lua-argon2 ?

Is it possible to update sqlite3 plugin to a current version?

pie — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:30:20 +0000

I am not sure how much work would it involve since I rely on the good heart of @hgy29 to build gideros because I am not proficient enough to touch gideros source code, however I noticed that the sqlite3 plugin embedded in gideros is still using version 3.7.17 (released in 2013 - print(sqlite3.version()) ) while there were many updates in the current sqlite3 development. https://www.sqlite.org/changes.html I can only hope that since there were no major releases (it is still 3.xx) nothing changed in dealing with it from the gideros side.. just asking if it's something easy to do :smile: thank you

Problem exporting a Gideros Player

dreiko65 — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 18:03:45 +0000

Hi all, I am currently facing a problem. I am trying to export a gideros player for android but when i try to open the app it crashes imediately. The logcat says "invalid application id"!! No matter what I have tried it does not seems to work. The player runs only if i remove the ads plugin from my project but that is not something I want to do. Till now I have tried the admob test app id, and the real id that i created in admob just for the player. I still get the same error. Dont know what else to try. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

AdMob Plugin not compatible (SDK v7 sunset)

kussakov — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 02:28:35 +0000

Hi everyone, The AdMob plugin is not compatible with GoogleMobileAdds SDK. I think it was working with v7 which is sunset for 1 week now. Several questions: 1. Are there plans to update the plugin for iOS and Android to be compatible with the latest version v10? 2. If not is there another ads framework that is still supported by Gideros? 3. If not how much donation is needed to update the ads plugins? 4. Is there a workaround?

Trying to create an android plugin & incorporating it in a player

FrancoisDM — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:27:07 +0000

Hey folks, I'm developing an android app which relies on a custom plugin, so I need to build a player with that plugin incorporated. Before making it, I wanted to try my hand at creating a player with a plugin that is already known working. I based myself on this thread to figure out how to make & run a player w/ a plugin on my device: https://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/830/creating-a-simple-android-plugin#Item_10 Unfortunately, I'm having trouble getting a player with a user plugin to work on my phone. What I'm using: Android API 28 NDK r25 Gideros Studio 2023.6 Android Studio 2022.2.1 Eclipse 2019-06 Target device is an Honor 7x BND-L21 running android 28 What I tried: -Making a blank project, exporting it as Android (Target API 28) -Importing the project under Android Studio -Running on phone It works -Making an empty project with the plugin "clipper" -Same process as above It works -Making a project with the plugin "bitop" mentioned in the thread above -Importing under Android Studio -Adding the libbitop.so file in the jniLibs folders -Adding the line "System.loadLibrary("bitop");" in the [AppName]\Activity.java file -Running on phone It crashes immediately So I switched to Eclipse to try and have the same conditions as in the thread: -Imported the blank project under Eclipse -Switched the build target to android 28 (it was set to 15 by default) -Ran the app on phone It crashed immediately I noted that removing the "assets" folder (which is empty) has no effect in any scenario I tested. I can try using an older API, but seeing that I can't even create a clean player with Eclipse, I feel like I'm missing something important here. Any help would be appreciated.

Problem with Ads plugin and landscape allignment

dreiko65 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:08:25 +0000

Hello everyone. How can i allign my ads banner to be at the bottom center of the screen once i have set the games allignment to landscape_left? Thanks

How to save online a string of text? What is the status of Firebase plugin?

pie — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:23:54 +0000

I am trying to implement a bug report tool embedded in my app, where users can send short strings of text saying what is gone wrong. The easiest way I can think of doing it is using openURL


application:openUrl("mailto:user@foo.com?subject=app bug&body=this is an error")

But it has some downsides, first of which is that the user has to send me an email through his/her personal email account, and I feel that while this might be appropriate for a selected testing group, it is not for a paying user. Since I only need to get short strings I thought I could rely on an online db, which might be the firebase real time db. Is it already usable through the firebase plugin? If that is the case, is there any documentation on where to start? However it's the first time I am approaching firebase, and maybe it's too much for what I need. I am open to any alternative: any way to send a string of text without asking the user to act outside my app, to be recorded somewhere on the internet. Thank you a lot :)

Controller Plugin Question

Gabriel_Mercês — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:10:41 +0000

I'm new to Gideros, it's my first asking here! With the Controller plugin added to my project, I tried using the sample code on the documentation: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- require "controller" controller:addEventListener(Event.KEY_DOWN, function(e) print("Button Down ", e.playerId, e.keyCode, findKeyCode(e.keyCode)) end) controller:addEventListener(Event.KEY_UP, function(e) print("Button Up ", e.playerId, e.keyCode, findKeyCode(e.keyCode)) end) controller:addEventListener(Event.RIGHT_JOYSTICK, function(e) print("Player: ", e.playerId) print("RIGHT_JOYSTICK:", "x:"..e.x, "y:"..e.y, "angle:"..e.angle, "strength:"..e.strength) end) controller:addEventListener(Event.LEFT_JOYSTICK, function(e) print("Player: ", e.playerId) print("LEFT_JOYSTICK:", "x:"..e.x, "y:"..e.y, "angle:"..e.angle, "strength:"..e.strength) end) controller:addEventListener(Event.RIGHT_TRIGGER, function(e) print("Player: ", e.playerId) print("RIGHT_TRIGGER:", "strength:"..e.strength) end) controller:addEventListener(Event.LEFT_TRIGGER, function(e) print("Player: ", e.playerId) print("LEFT_TRIGGER:", "strength:"..e.strength) end) controller:addEventListener(Event.CONNECTED, function(e) print("Player: ", e.playerId, "connected") print("Are there any controllers?", controller:isAnyAvailable()) print("Controller count", controller:getPlayerCount()) print("Name of controller "..e.playerId, controller:getControllerName(e.playerId)) print("players", #controller:getPlayers()) end) controller:addEventListener(Event.DISCONNECTED, function(e) print("Player: ", e.playerId, "disconnected") end) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I connect my joystick it appears on console that there is a player. When I try moving the analogic or the arrows it prints on the screen correctly. But any other keys returns an error like this: "main.lua:4: attempt to call a nil value" And the console simply don't work anymore. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

Error updating google play services in plugin ads to 20.0.0

rodri — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:01:18 +0000

please help Error updating google play services in plugin ads. I recently uploaded an app to google play... and everything is fine, I am using in the ads plugin "google play services version": 16.0.0 and GIDEROS 2023.1 but I get the following "warning": Caveat The person behind the development of the Google Mobile Ads (GMA) SDK (com google android gms:play-services-ads) added the following note to SDK version 16.0.0: This version is officially deprecated, and will soon disable ad loading. Please update to a new version. See hhtt developers.google.com/admob/android/deprecation for more details. recommend using a version above 20.0.0 but when I put 20.0.0 in plugin ads and in plugin gaming I get errors and it doesn't build the apk or abb... I get these errors...: FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources'. > Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:releaseRuntimeClasspath'. > Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-games:20.2.0. Searched in the following locations: " - jcenter bintray com/com/google/android/gms/play-services-games/20.2.0/play-services-games-20.2.0.pom - maven google com/com/google/android/gms/play-services-games/20.2.0/play-services-games-20.2.0.pom " - file:/E:/apps_2023_generadores/_guess generados/ferrodqui_guess the movie/export/ferrodqui_guess the movie/tmp/app/libs/play-services-games-20.2.0.jar - file:/E:/apps_2023_generadores/_guess generados/ferrodqui_guess the movie/export/ferrodqui_guess the movie/tmp/app/libs/play-services-games.jar Required by: project :app *Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. * Get more help at help gradle org BUILD FAILED in 5s Exec returned: 1 Export failed! See details above. Moving the parameters a bit, setting it to 19.0.0 seems to be accepted, but I get several errors, more related to the plugin, for example: : error: package com.google.android.gms.ads.reward does not exist import com.google.android.gms.ads.reward.RewardItem; error: cannot find symbol private RewardedVideoAd mRewardedAd = null; ^ symbol: class RewardedVideoAd location: class AdsAdmob E:\apps_2023_generators\_generated puzzles\ferrodqui_image puzzle - copy\export\copy_image puzzle\tmp\app\src\main\java\com\giderosmobile\android\plugins\ads\frameworks\AdsAdmob.java:35: error: cannot find symbol private InterstitialAd interstitial = null; and other.. please help Is someone compiling with version 20.0.0 or higher in google play services version in the ads plugin? They are integrating ADMOB to their projects with a version greater than 16.0.0 how can it be done if anyone knows I will be very grateful Greetings.

I made another plugin (cute_c2)

rrraptor — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:44:06 +0000

For some reason I decided to create binding of a collision detection library. Quick demo (using ImGui to draw shapes): Check GitHub page for more info.

Imgui crash in android player on touch

pie — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:27:10 +0000

This is the output as soon as I touch the screen [1355] jni/../../Common/imgui_src/imgui.cpp: mouse_button >= 0 && mouse_button < ImGuiMouseButton_COUNT Should I do something I missed? Thank you

I am having issues trying to use imgui: player crashes

pie — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:04:12 +0000

Hi guys, it's been a long time I am not using Gideros (but always lurking) and I am happy to see that the community is still thriving! :smiley: Now I forgot almost everything I learned in the past years of using gideros, and something is probably changed, but I hope I will recover something on the way.. I came back to see if I can make use of ImGui: it's the first time I am using it and I am moving my first steps. I basically copied the first example found on github and it crashes my windows player. Shall I do something to enable the plugin in the windows player? Am I doing something unexpected? This is my code so far, in main.lua, thank you!


 require "ImGui"


function SetMainUI()
local UI = ImGui.new()
local IO = UI:getIO()
local FontAtlas = IO:getFonts()
local Font = FontAtlas:addFonts{ {"fonts/CharisSIL-Regular.ttf", 18}, {"fonts/CharisSIL-Bold.ttf", 18},  {"fonts/CharisSIL-Italic.ttf", 18} }



IO:setFontDefault(Font[1])
FontAtlas:build()

	UI:pushFont(Font[1])
	UI:text("Font1")
	UI:popFont()


	return UI

end

ui = SetMainUI()
stage:addChild(ui)

edit: I forgot the basic info. Windows10, Gideros 2022.9

Panthera animation tool

keszegh — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:18:00 +0000

I've found this helper tool for making Defold animations: https://forum.defold.com/t/panthera-animation-software-for-defold/71276/8 probably it would be relatively easy to modify the code so that it can also export code for Gideros movieclip-based animation (or even better/easier to maintain: a plugin/class to process the json file that it exports to). I thought i will mention it, perhaps somebody is interested in doing it/using it.

Effekseer

hgy29 — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:15:12 +0000

I just stumbled across this https://effekseer.github.io/en/index.html and it looks like supporting this in Gideros would be cool.

Iab issues with Google Billing Library version 3

PaulH — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:08:35 +0000

Hey, all. I'm assuming I'm missing something obvious, or if not what I'm running into must be something others would have encountered and solved: With Gideros versions prior to 2021-5 (when Google billing version 3 was added) I can export an APK or bundle of my new game just fine, but Google won't accept it. With either the latest Gideros or with 20121-5, if my app includes the IAB plugin, I get errors when either by trying to export directly to a bundle, or if I try to build the export in Android Studio. The errors start with the line "import androidx.annotation.NonNull;" in IabGoogle.java. I get "Cannot resolve symbol 'NonNull". I thought perhaps now any app using Iab for Google might also need the Google Licensing plugin (it would make sense) so I've added that, but that had no effect. I tried adding the Google Play Services plugin, despite being deprecated, but that just introduced new errors. It does build if I have the Iab and deprecated Google Play Services plugins included and not the Google Licensing plugin, except that final step (RmDir: tmp) fails, because OpenJDK Platform still has something open in that folder. The APK or bundle gets built, so that's my workaround for the moment, but it seems like I must be missing something if the only way I can get an export to build is with the deprecated plugin. I've gone as far as uninstalling and reinstalling both Gideros and Android Studio, but the problem persists. Any ideas? Paul

Ads and Admob with the latest Google Play services SDK

kussakov — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:09:41 +0000

Is the Ads and Admob plugins, that come with Gideros, work with the latest Google Play services SDK? They introduced some changes for iOS related to privacy. I have a new app (working on it for 2 years) and it is time to add adds and publish it. Just wanted to know if I will have any challenges with Admob plugins for iOS and Android. 🙏

I can't publish custom plugins for iOS

John — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 11:02:37 +0000

I wrote a custom plugin 3 years ago for a project which exported and worked fine using a version of Gideros in 2018. In a completely different project using same plugin I get the following error when I package the project in iOS. Lua error:./Tools/export_ios.lua:156: Error: group GroupIOSSupport is not defined (yet) Using version 2021.9 The same error appears when I compile the 3 year old project.

Poki plugin

totebo — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:53:49 +0000

Hi guys, Is there a chance the Poki SDK could be integrated with Gideros? Or have someone here used Poki with Gideros already? Poki HTML5 SDK: https://sdk.poki.com/html5/ Defold extension: https://github.com/AGulev/defold-poki-sdk Cheers, Niclas

Where did the plugins go?

kussakov — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:49:35 +0000

Guys, sorry if I repeat the same question. I installed the latest version of Gideros and have no plugins. Do I have to download them from somewhere and copy to a folder?