android packaging nightmare

Development Platform & Builds
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It is now 1 week I have been battling trying to get the android packaging to work. What a nightmare, I still am not able to package without failure.

I have followed the docs for 5.3 on the website and now I get this:

Welcome to Gradle 7.5!
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): Here are the highlights of this release:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Support for Java 18
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Support for building with Groovy 4
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Much more responsive continuous builds
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Improved diagnostics for dependency resolution
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): For more details see Gradle 7.5 Release Notes
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): To honour the JVM settings for this build a single-use Daemon process will be forked. See The Gradle Daemon.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): Daemon will be stopped at the end of the build
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): * What went wrong:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): A problem occurred configuring root project ‘app’.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): > Could not resolve all files for configuration ‘:classpath’.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): > Could not resolve com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): Required by:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): project :
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): > No matching variant of com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 was found. The consumer was configured to find a runtime of a library compatible with Java 8, packaged as a jar, and its dependencies declared externally, as well as attribute ‘org.gradle.plugin.api-version’ with value ‘7.5’ but:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Variant ‘apiElements’ capability com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 declares a library, packaged as a jar, and its dependencies declared externally:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Incompatible because this component declares an API of a component compatible with Java 11 and the consumer needed a runtime of a component compatible with Java 8
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Other compatible attribute:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Doesn’t say anything about org.gradle.plugin.api-version (required ‘7.5’)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Variant ‘javadocElements’ capability com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 declares a runtime of a component, and its dependencies declared externally:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Incompatible because this component declares documentation and the consumer needed a library
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Other compatible attributes:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Doesn’t say anything about its target Java version (required compatibility with Java 8)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Doesn’t say anything about its elements (required them packaged as a jar)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Doesn’t say anything about org.gradle.plugin.api-version (required ‘7.5’)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Variant ‘runtimeElements’ capability com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 declares a runtime of a library, packaged as a jar, and its dependencies declared externally:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Incompatible because this component declares a component compatible with Java 11 and the consumer needed a component compatible with Java 8
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Other compatible attribute:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Doesn’t say anything about org.gradle.plugin.api-version (required ‘7.5’)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Variant ‘sourcesElements’ capability com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 declares a runtime of a component, and its dependencies declared externally:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Incompatible because this component declares documentation and the consumer needed a library
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Other compatible attributes:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Doesn’t say anything about its target Java version (required compatibility with Java 8)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Doesn’t say anything about its elements (required them packaged as a jar)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ASTC)): - Doesn’t say anything about org.gradle.plugin.api-version (required ‘7.5’)

am about to give up on unreal.

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Please create a new project from one of the templates and try packaging of this one, just to see if this is related to the SDK settings or your project configuration.

What are your SDK settings and what is your version of Android Studio?

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I am using unreal 5.3.2

I finally got the packaging to work, but the install fails on the phone (Galaxy A50, Android 11)

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I have to work with Android Studio for my other mobile apps.
My current SDK config:

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Do you get any other error message when copying the package to your phone? Or is it the ‘failed to open descriptor file’ message when you try to open the app?

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I do not understand your setup, you are point to jbr which is not the JDK. These are two different things.

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I took it over from here:

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I got the packaging to work. Using this setup:

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my game now can run on android-8 and upwards.

When I install the package I do sometimes get “cannot find resources” popup on the phone, but reinstalling it seems to fix this everytime, so I am assuming it is something with the install bat file that has a race condition or something like that.