We’ve been working with multiple partners on joining the Partner Program and building THETA V Plug-ins. A list of “warnings” is here. Please read the list closely.
Beyond that, several issues have come up repeatedly. Here are some Tips when building your Plug-ins. Special thanks to Fream and HoloBuilder for adding useful information here.
The following are Tips to make sure the process goes quicker. We will add more as necessary.
The licenses.html File
You need to include any open source license information used by your plug-in in the apk file under \assets\licenses.html. No special format is required but expect users to be able to see it. The licenses.html file does not need to include the EULA, it’s fine to just include the open source licenses info.
Note: The /assets folder should be included in the .zip file, not just the RICOH SnapChamber (upload mechanism).
You can get license information using the Web API command camera._getPluginLicense.
This is example of HTML file for license.html
<html>
<head>
<meta http‐equiv="Content‐Type" content="text/html; charset=windows‐1252">
<style type="text/css">
body { padding: 0; font‐family: sans‐serif; }
</style>
</head>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0">
<div>
<p>This plugin uses <TYPE LICENSES FROM YOUR LIBRARIES> licensed libraries</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Your Plug-in Build number
The format is major.minor.buildnumber, so it’ll probably commonly be: 1.0.0
- Major version - big changes in code
- Minor version - small changes in code, maybe one feature or something like that
- Fixes version - bug fixes release, etc.
Longer description of major.minor.buildnumber format here: https://semver.org
PackageName issues
To make sure that your PackageName and your Plug-in name are the same, you need to be check several places.
Examples stated here are for a plug-in called “yourpluginname,” with a company name called “Oppkey,” and a website “theta360.guide”.
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App level build gradle could have
applicationIdin defaultConfig closure - Example applicationId:
“guide.theta360.oppkey.yourpluginname” -
In the tag you have a “package” attribute - Example: package=“guide.theta360.oppkey.yourpluginname”
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In the Manifest inside the application tag you have an attribute label - Example: “Your Plug-in Name” (spaces fine)
For distributing Android apps, applicationId is very important, because it overrides your package in the manifest. You can have different suffixes for your applicationId (.beta .debug, etc.).
This is important because applicationId (and therefore the package from the Manifest) is used by Google Play to identify your app.
You can set ANY label for your app.
For publishing it is important to have the proper applicationId which corresponds to the code package. The label should be the same as the plugin name.
When you send your plug-in .zip file to RICOH, name your APK YourLabelWIthoutSpaces.apk, add 1.png…5.png files. Size of the images needs to be 960×520pix. Images sent in at 1024x1024, even clearly labeled as such, have been rejected.
You can attach your README.TXT to the .zip file.
NAME OF ZIP WITH THOSE FILES IS = applicationID
Example: guide.theta360.oppkey.yourpluginname.zip