Renpy on Android APK (from Windows)
I struggled for a bit so I thought you'd like to know how to do it for your own games! Onlines tutorials are a mess to understand...
1- Renpy documentation (yes, I know, stay with me!)
2- Download JDK 21 (DON'T chose another one!!! It's horrible to recover from that mistake!)
3- Download Java 8 ( I don't know why you have to dl this too but hey, that's just how I found it)
4- Download Android Studio (otherwise renpy will not understand what you mean) I got "panda 1" at the time of this tutorial
5- Open the JDK 21 thing I told you to download and do this :
Sorry it's in french but basically : add to PATH, associate .jar and Define variable to JAVA_HOME (you just click on the tiny arrow to select a disk, it should NOT stay a red cross!)
5- Open Java 8 and install it
6- Same for Android Studio
7- Move ALL Java files you just downloaded ( Java 8 and JDK ) to the big Java file already in your computer. To find it :
PC -> Windows C: -> Programs -> Java
8- Now, you click on the file that should be "jdk-21.0.10" (just find the JDK you just moved here) and copy the path to it. This thing, if you clic on it, will give you something similar to a website address!
9- The hardest part!! Click on the Windows symbol then go to Parameters -> System -> "About" (should be at the bottom of the screen or on the side, bottom of a list) -> advanced parameters (I'm on windows 10, it's on the right side for me)
You'll get something like this:
Click on "environment variables", you'll get this (I censored my name):
now you double click (or click on "edit") in the JAVA_HOME part
and paste what you copied earlier. So that your computer knows where to look when Renpy asks for "java_home"!
10- Once you're here, you should be able to follow this tutorial easily :
The whole "where to put Java????" part was insanely difficult so I hope it'll help some of you!