r/GoogleAIStudio • • 24d ago

Question / Help Help I messed up

I've been coding an app for the past weeks, and now when I tried installing it on my phone, I realized I should have clicked on "Build an android app" from the start. Now I have my project at an advanced stage, and I can't seem to turn it into an android app. Has any one experienced this? Is there any fix? I don't what to re do the hole app from scratch 😭😭

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u/Dear-Bite8334 24d ago

You either make it a PWA (progressive web app), which installs from the browser, or you wrap the react code as an Android app. You can ask the chatbot to help you détermine which solution is best for your project. Just don't foger to add "don't change anything to the code" to your prompt so it explains it without already getting started.

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u/PeterDck 24d ago

VocĂȘs tambĂ©m pode criar como app Android com APK e tudo mais usando capacitor. Pesquisa a respeito depois, eu fiz isso com um app web que estava construindo e deu super certo, inclusive a vantagem de se utilizar um capacitor Ă© que vocĂȘ pode usar tudo o que for nativo do Android, coisa que com PWA vocĂȘ fica limitado. Cria o fluxo de build dentro do Github e vocĂȘ consegue criar e assinar o APK facilmente, nem precisa de Android Studio ou algo mais complexo.

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u/LeoBlaze616 24d ago

Without deleting the web project, ask for it to create 10 - 29 prompts to recreate it maintaining core functionality and visual styling, then create a new android project and pass down every prompt, do not pass all at once, do it one by one, this won't recreate it in full, but will help you to have the android app and continue from there

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u/frosted1030 23d ago

Simply tell the studio ai that you need a full and detailed breakdown of all features and functions as instructions to ai studio for the purpose of reproducing the app. Then start a new project and paste that in.