Android SDK issue for UE5.7.1

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I am one of the many who just cannot get Android SDK to register properly.

I have followed instructions to the letter from here. I have the correct versions installed for 5.7 as mentioned here. I have set ENV variables, paths, etc.

I have even uninstalled everything and started again from scratch, but alas, no luck.

SDKenv
SDKenv559×124 4.19 KB

SDKsetupUE57
SDKsetupUE57750×165 6.15 KB

And under platform SDK setup you can see it is installed but also…not installed..

SDKerror
SDKerror270×118 2.99 KB

Force reinstall seems to “work” but after restarting the project, as requested, it shows up again as the above.

I have no idea what else to try…

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I cannot package because UE5 thinks I don’t have the right SDK installed, despite following that setup walkthrough link to the letter.

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I hope it solves the problem

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Hey @JCBKay!

Your install actually looks fine. The confusion is just the SDK Management panel showing two separate things stacked on top of each other:

Allowed SDK Versions: r27c through r28c

Installed: r27c ← your manual install ✓

Allowed AutoSDK Version: r27c

Installed: – ← AutoSDK (Epic’s auto-installer), unused

The top row is your manual NDK install and it’s correct (r27c is in the allowed range). The bottom row is AutoSDK, which is a separate mechanism Epic ships for automated/CI setups — it installs to its own managed location and isbindependent of your manual SDK. You don’t need both; an empty Installed: – under AutoSDK is normal when you’ve set things up by hand.

TL;DR: Ignore the AutoSDK row. Your r27c manual install is what UBT actually uses for the build. If your project still won’t package, the error is somewhere else — share the actual build log (the red lines, or AutomationTool/Saved/Logs/Log.txt) and we’ll trace it from there.

Kind regards,

Paul