Can I use Unreal Engine for Android Game Development?

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Hi,
I am new at game development. I am searched at Google, everybody says learn Unity. But I want to learn UE. I have a few questions.Can you help me please?

  1. Is Unreal Engine as successful as Unity? I know UE is the #1 for desktop game deveopment. What about mobile game dev?
  2. I want to embed ads in my game. Can I do it in UE?
  3. Could you give any mobile game sample made with UE?

These questions can be silly. Sorry for that. I am completely new at game development.

Thanks.

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The answer is ‘yes’, and information is available here - https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Platforms/Android

Cheers

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UE4 builds straight to my android just by ticking the “build APK” option in the editor. Though mileage may vary, in a class of 40, some phones absolutely would not run the software, and some laptops absolutely would not build to the phones. I had a short end of the stick when building to the same phone but I was using Unity, in which case I had to install 40gbs worth of Android Studio before Unity would successfully build. If things don’t work right away, find a couple days out of your schedule to just troubleshoot AND COMPILE SOME NOTES so you can build right away in the future.

If your project fails to build, I’d suggest attempting to build just the 3rd person or 1st person shooter starter projects. UE4 will build a pair of onscreen virtual joysticks to use for testing. But get that starter project working first, then try to copy the build settings to your other project as there might be something in your main project causes the build to fail.