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Hi.

That’s my first post in the forum :slight_smile:

Could you please point me documentation that teaches us how to develop our extensions like those in the market place (AdMob, Apple IAP, and so on).

I looked for it but (shame on me) I failed to find it.

Any tutorial would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi hi, I guess you mean the blue box line on this link?
https://docs.coronalabs.com/plugin/index.html

Interested in creating a plugin? Please see our Plugins guide to get started.

I had a hard time to find it because the title only shows “Plugins” after you enter the page. It’s confusing if they are talking about creating a plugin,  using a plugin, or just I ran into a wrong page… :wacko:

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I have a few libraries I created for myself.  Is there a way to create a personal plugin, ie: not for the Marketplace.

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@OlinaChang Thank you for the links.

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There is a tutorial here: http://docs.coronalabs.com/tutorial/native/iosIntro/index.html

It’s probably a little dated, but it should be mostly functional, where we walk you though building a plugin and using it in Xcode. It just turns the camera’s flash on and off.  There is also a community made tutorial for Android: https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/74325-tutorial-creating-a-corona-native-plugin-with-android-studio/

As I mentioned in another post, if you want to use your own plugins, you have to use Corona Native to build your complete project with your own plugins. There however is a feature called Self-Hosted Plugins, where you use Corona Native to build the plugin, but you can then use the simulator to build your apps.  This is a paid feature. It’s designed for larger studios where most of their developers are using the simulator.

Rob

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@Rob Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me. Indeed this forum is a very friendly place for all newbies like me :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the reference @Rob.

@plicatibu, the Android tutorial Rob linked to was written as a result of using the other, somewhat dated, resources to figure out how to do this myself and Android Studio hasn’t changed much since I wrote it, so it should still be fairly easy to follow. It covers only the absolute basics but it should get you going if you’re looking to do native Android stuff.

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@richard11 I’m reading it. It’s very well explained. If possible, on Sunday I will try to build it to get hands on experience. Thanks for sharing.