Android development and 4.7

I was really excited about the news that I would be able to release my project to HTML5, so I upgraded my Android project to 4.7.

After upgrading I couldn’t build my game, and found out i needed to download a new version of the nvidia developer kit, then after doing that I deleted my in-game intermediate/android folder, because it was still using some out-dated java file, and finally after all of this I noticed a message in project settings “Note to users from 4.6 or earlier: … There is currently no .obb file downloader” …Until Unreal Engine v4.8…".

I’ve been working on my project for quite a long time, over 5 months and it was more or less finished, I never would have upgraded this project to 4.7 if I had adequate warning about these issues because I was re-releasing it today after adding some sounds and fixing some release day bugs. Now I have to wait until 4.8? This is aweful. I expected the upgrade to 4.7 to be like other upgrades without major hassles.

When I send my game to my phone in development mode it works, but when I put it out in shipping mode and send it to my phone I just get a black screen. :frowning:

Hey Daryl,

Mate, you must be spewin’. That really sucks to be honest. I mean, this is probably something you don’t really notice until you go to publish something to the play store which will no doubt come well after having upgraded a project and made significant changes. Fingers cross epic see this thread and identify it as something they may be able to improve visibility of in the future. It may be hidden away in the release notes somewhere but I never noticed it, and clearly you’ve missed it aswell. It’s ultimately a platform breaking release for Android. Maybe some kind of advisory when updating if these known, breaking, things are still present. More than happy to get popup warnings for something like this when going to update the engine or updating a project.

Anyway, keep up the good work and I am sure it’ll all get better soon. :wink:

There has never been an OBB downloader in UE4; so nothing has been taken away in that regard you just need to be aware that currently, when publishing to Google Play Store, that if the OBB file becomes deleted from the user’s device there is no automatic donwload of the file. The message has appeared now simply because of UI changes and various backend improvements/fixes/changes.