Publish to Honor Mini Games

Starting from Cocos Creator v3.8.6, games can be published to Honor Mini Games.

Preparation Work

• Refer Honor Mini Games Integration Guide, complete the developer registration process and app creation on the Honor Open Platform.

• Download Honor Quick Game APP and install it on your honor mobile device.

Build Options

Open the project you want to publish with Cocos Creator, and from the Menu Bar -> Project, open the Build and Publish panel, select Honor Mini Games as the Publish Platform.

General build options can be set according to General Build Options. The specific build options for Honor Mini Games are as follows:

Name	Optional	Description	Field name
Game Package Name	required	such as com.example.demo	package
Desktop Icon	required	Click the search icon button at the back of the input box to select the icon you want. When building, the Desktop Icon will be built into the Honor Mini Game project. It is suggested to use PNG images for the Desktop Icon.	icon
Game Version Name	required	Game Version Name is the real version, such as: 1.0.0.	versionName
Game Version Number	required	Game Version Number is different from the Game Version Name, and the Game Version Number is mainly used to distinguish the version update. Each time when you submit audit, the game version number is at least 1 higher than the value of the last submitted audit. It must not be equal to or less than the value of the last submitted audit, and it is recommended that the Game Version Number be recursively incremented by 1 each time when the audit is submitted.	versionCode
Supported Minimum Platform Version Number	required	For compatibility checks to prevent incompatibilities from arising when running on lower version platforms after going live.	minPlatformVersion
Screen orientation	-	Device direction, it will be written in manifest.json.	orientation
Use debug keystore	-	true	When you check Use Debug Keystore, it means that the rpk package built with the certificate that comes with Creator is used by default, and it is only used for debugging. when the rpk package is to be used to submit an audit, do not check the Use Debug Keystore to build it.
Key certification path	-	-	The key store certificate, the quick game on the Huawei App Market, must be signed with the release version certificate, and the certificate fingerprint must be configured in the background of the Huawei Developers Alliance. For details, please refer to the following Generate Signature File

Generate signature file

If you don't check the Keystore, you need to configure the signature files certificate.pem path and private.pem path, where you build a rpk package that you can publish directly. The developer can configure two signature files by using the search icon button to the right of the input box.

There are two ways to generate a signature files:

• Generated by the New button after the certificate.pem path in the Build panel.

• Generated by the command line.

  The developer needs to generate the signature file private.pem, certificate.pem through tools such as openssl.

  # Generate a signature file with the openssl command tool
  openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout private.pem   -x509 -days 3650 -out certificate.pem

  Note: openssl can be used directly in the terminal in Linux or Mac environment, and in the Windows environment you need to install openssl and configure system environment variables. Restart Creator after the configuration is complete.

Building

After setting the build options in the Build and Publish panel, click the Build and Generate button.

After completion, click the folder icon button at the bottom left of Build Task to open the project's published package. You can see that a honor-mini-game folder (subject to the specific build task name) is generated in the default publish path build directory. This folder is the exported Honor Quick Game project directory and rpk, and the rpk package is in the build/honor-mini-game/dist directory.

If you need to modify the generated rpk package, after making changes, click the Generate button at the bottom right of Build Task to regenerate the rpk package without rebuilding.

Run the rpk

There are two ways to run rpk on your phone:

• Method One

  Click the Run button in the Build and Publish panel and wait for the QR code interface to generate:

  

  Then open the Quick App that was installed before on your Android device. Click the Scan code install button to scan the QR Code to open the rpk.

  

• Method Two

  Copy the generated mini game rpk file (located in the dist directory) to the internal storage directory of the mobile phone.

  Open the Quick App that has been installed before on the Android device, click Local Install, then find the rpk file from the internal storage directory of your mobile phone and select Open.

  

Honor Mini Game Environment Resource Management

Similar to WeChat Mini Games, Honor Mini Games also have package size limitations. The main package size limit for Honor Mini Games is 5MB, and any content exceeding this limit must be downloaded via network requests.
When the package size is too large, you can configure the Remote Server Address option in the Build and Publish panel to upload low-priority resources to a remote server. For more details, please refer to Uploading Resources to Remote Server.

After the game starts, the engine will automatically download resources from the remote server address. Once the resources are downloaded, the engine's cache manager will record the save paths of these resources. This information is used to automatically delete some cached game resources when the cache space is insufficient. Please refer to Cache Manager for more details.

Reference documentation

• Honor Mini Games Integration Guide
• Honor Quick Game APP