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  • When exporting a debug APK from Construct, the app runs in a WebView using the Cordova framework to communicate with the app that contains the WebView. It's not the same as a web browser, and so some things like opening links work differently, especially when trying to open a new tab/window: as it's not a browser it doesn't have the ability to use tabs or different windows, so it just opens in the same WebView.

    Construct's Browser object works around this, so if you can use the 'Open URL in new window' action, it will work correctly.

    If you are using JavaScript coding, you can also make use of the Cordova InAppBrowser plugin: calling cordova.InAppBrowser.open(url, "_system") will open the given URL in the system browser, which is what the Browser object does. (If you do this, add the Browser object to the project, as it includes the InAppBrowser plugin.)

    If you are clicking links inside an iframe showing other web content, it is much more difficult, as the web content inside the iframe is not under the control of Construct or Cordova and so neither of these things will work. You will have to do some customization in Android Studio as you were already looking at, but this is beyond the scope of what I can help with.

    Of course, a much easier solution is: publish a web app and skip the Android app completely. Then it always runs in a web browser and links will open normally.

  • Don't do this. You're using undocumented internals which are not supported and could permanently break at any time.

    You shouldn't need to manually suspend or resume the engine anyway. Construct handles that for you. If you want to do something like pause the game, set the time scale to 0 instead.

  • Do you mean in the addon SDK? The sample addons have code that includes a custom script interface, e.g. here which defines IMySingleGlobalInstance exposed to Construct's JavaScript coding.

    If you mean just when writing your own JavaScript code... sure, just use classes, modules etc.

  • It sounds like they came up with their own vector graphics renderer. It's the kind of thing browsers can already do (via SVG or canvas2d).

  • That code doesn't look right. You've written an array with a single string element, and then called it as a function. If you mean to call a global function, use globalThis["Inventory__GetScrollY"]().

    I would advise going through the Learn JavaScript in Construct tutorial series which covers the basics of JavaScript syntax such as this.

  • Or is it that there is a plan to obfuscate all internals at some point?

    This could well happen, and it could mean whatever internals you are accessing become permanently unavailable.

    A long-standing problem with JavaScript is it has typically had poor encapsulation: external code can easily mess with the internals of APIs. With newer features like private fields there is proper encapsulation support that makes it genuinely impossible for external callers to mess with internals. As encapsulation is a basic principle of software engineering and important for the long-term reliability of a platform and codebase, I would definitely like to use that throughout our codebase. This would however make all sorts of internals permanently inaccessible - much like they already are with any other game engine with any other technology that properly supports encapsulation, so bringing us in to line with the industry standard. This could permanently break engine hacks with no workaround. This is exactly why we have this warning, and why whenever possible I advise against it, since as per our policy we will not help anyone in this situation if they were using undocumented internals.

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  • Try disabling any browser extensions you have, or try using a different browser. That's often the cause for weird error messages like this.

  • See the manual section on exporting with advanced minification.

  • There is a known issue with WebGPU that updating textures seems significantly slower than WebGL. In Construct, changing Text objects and a few other things require updating a texture, so these cases may be slower than WebGL for the time being. I filed an issue about it back in June but it hasn't been sorted out yet. As WebGPU is still pretty new I think there may be a few early issues like this to be sorted out, but I think it's likely it will end up as fast or faster than WebGL in the long run.

  • I'm afraid it's impossible to help from just this information. If you provide your project file we could take a look, alternatively file an issue following all the guidelines so we can investigate. Also try disabling any browser extensions you have installed as they can be a common source of problems, or try using a different browser.

  • Take a look at the voice recorder example which should be a good place to start. You can also save recordings to Local Storage as binary data.

  • It depends: Touch with mouse input enabled can work if all you need are left button clicks and drags. If you want something like detecting the mouse cursor hovering over an object, you still need the Mouse object for that, as the concept of hovering doesn't apply to touch input, or if you want to make use of middle/right clicks or the mouse wheel.

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