Android doesn't appear in solution platform options of Visual Studio

Development Pipeline & Plugins
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As title says, I can’t manage to make Android solution platform appear in visual studio.

Here is what I have done before getting to android parts:

1.Downloaded engine source (4.13.2) from github

2.Ran setup.exe

3.Ran GenerateProjectFiles.bat

4.Built engine for Development/win64

5.Built engine for DevelopmentEditor/win64

At this stage, engine and editor were perfectly built and ready to use.
Here comes what I have done so far regarding the android:

1.Downloaded and installed all necessary components by running CodeWorks (1R4u2).

2.Restarted windows, Now all environment variables (especifically NDKROOT and NDK_ROOT) are set. I can see them in ControlPanel->AdvanceSystemSettings->Enviroment Variables.

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3.Ran Setup.exe again, about 300mb where downloaded.

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4.Ran GenerateProjectFiles.bat again.

Now, I expected to see android solution platform in visual studio, in the same dropdown where win64/win32/Mac/HTML5 are, but its not there.

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P.S. I’m using VS2015 on Windows10.

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Hello Sachamora,

This may be due to the order in which you did your setup. When you generate your project files, it checks to see what SDKs you have installed to determine what modules it needs to generate. If you didn’t have Android installed at the time, it likely ignored generating those modules. It does this because if it were to generate them without you having the SDKs installed (if it even can) you would fail when trying to build the editor.

Now that you have Android installed, I would suggest running GenerateProjectFiles again and then building the editor again. This should include Android in the build configuration menu.

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We haven’t heard from you in a while, Sachamora. Are you still experiencing this issue or was my last comment able to help resolve this issue? In the meantime, I’ll be marking this issue as resolved for tracking purposes.