Packaging size is enormous

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I’ve seen a lot of documentation about how to reduce the package size of the .apk, but I still don’t understand how my game weights about 300Mb when I package it for shipment. Because it only has one level, with no more than 20 simple cubes (included in the starter content) and my pawn (which I designed and the size of the .fbx is about 3Mb with a skeletal mesh and a simple animation).
I got rid of all shadows, set the packaging options to exclude the engine content and other settings recommended in the documentation.7/
This game, as it is now, should weight less than 50Mb, so anyone knows which is the factor/factors increasing the size so much?

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300mb is tiny.

Two things you can do to reduce package size:

  1. Specify which maps to package in the packaging settings.

OR

  1. Make a new, empty project of the same type. Migrate the map you want to publish to the new project and package from there.
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300Mb for a mobile game I think it’s a lot, I think I forgot to say that the game was for android

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Ah… same concept applies though…

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I did that and the size was reduced from 300Mb to 200Mb, but still too high. It might be because of the animation or the mesh of the pawn?

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I realised that a completely empty project needs about 200Mb of storage memory on the phone (you can try to create a blank project for mobile with scalable 2D/3D and pass the app to the internal memory of the phone to see how much occupies). So now I have two doubts:
Is there any factor that I am forgetting when I package the project? Some box I should exclude or something?
And the other question is if UE4 is suitable for creating mobile games?

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Lots of people use UE to make mobile games. Most phones have GBs of space, so I’m not sure why 200mb is a problem.

If you want to know what’s taking up all the space, take a look at your content folder using a utility like spacesniffer:

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/download.html

You can also use UNREALPAK.EXE ( in the main engine binaries folder ) to dump the pak file and see if there’s anything in there that shouldn’t be.