Suddenly Can't make Shipping Build

I’ve been doing just fine and now I went to change a bunch of blueprints. I didn’t touch anything except for Version Numbers in the Unreal Editor when about to ship and now it won’t build any shipping projects at all!

I just don’t get it. It keeps getting to the signing part then it signs it and needs to do something with Zipping it up or something? But when it gets to open the APK as a Zip Archive it says that the file isn’t even there, which seems to be true. It doesn’t make the APK file or it doesn’t move it after it’s made. I can’t figure out which it is.

I get the following error messages:


MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): [apkbuilder] Current build type is different than previous build: forced apkbuilder run.
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): [apkbuilder] Creating FlyingThunderChase-release-unsigned.apk for release...
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): -post-package:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): -release-prompt-for-password:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): -release-nosign:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): -release-sign:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):      [echo] Signing final apk...
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):  [zipalign] Running zip align on final apk...
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): [zip-align] Unable to open 'E:\UE4 Projects\FlyingThunderChase 4.9\Intermediate\Android\APK\bin\FlyingThunderChase-release.apk' as zip archive
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): BUILD FAILED
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): E:\NVPACK\android-sdk-windows	ools\ant\build.xml:1139: The following error occurred while executing this line:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): E:\NVPACK\android-sdk-windows	ools\ant\build.xml:1156: The following error occurred while executing this line:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): E:\NVPACK\android-sdk-windows	ools\ant\build.xml:335: null returned: 1
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): Total time: 35 seconds
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): BuildCommand.Execute: ERROR: BUILD FAILED
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): Program.Main: ERROR: AutomationTool terminated with exception:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): Program.Main: ERROR: Exception in UnrealBuildTool: ERROR: cmd.exe failed with args /c "E:/NVPACK/apache-ant-1.8.2/bin/ant.bat" release
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): Stacktrace:    at UnrealBuildTool.Android.UEDeployAndroid.RunCommandLineProgramAndThrowOnError(String WorkingDirectory, String Command, String Params, String OverrideDesc, Boolean bUseShellExecute)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at UnrealBuildTool.Android.UEDeployAndroid.MakeApk(String ProjectName, String ProjectDirectory, String OutputPath, String EngineDirectory, Boolean bForDistribution, String CookFlavor, Boolean bMakeSeparateApks, Boolean bIncrementalPackage, Boolean bDisallowPackagingDataInApk)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at UnrealBuildTool.Android.UEDeployAndroid.PrepForUATPackageOrDeploy(String ProjectName, String ProjectDirectory, String ExecutablePath, String EngineDirectory, Boolean bForDistribution, String CookFlavor, Boolean bIsDataDeploy)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at AndroidPlatform.Package(ProjectParams Params, DeploymentContext SC, Int32 WorkingCL)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at Project.Package(ProjectParams Params, Int32 WorkingCL)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at BuildCookRun.Do
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): BuildCookRun(ProjectParams Params)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at BuildCommand.Execute()
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at AutomationTool.Automation.Execute(List`1 CommandsToExecute, CaselessDictionary`1 Commands)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at AutomationTool.Automation.Process(String] CommandLine)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at AutomationTool.Program.MainProc(Object Param)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at AutomationTool.InternalUtils.RunSingleInstance(Action`1 Main, Object Param)
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)):    at AutomationTool.Program.Main()
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): ProcessManager.KillAll: Trying to kill 0 spawned processes.
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): Program.Main: AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=Error_Unknown
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): Domain_ProcessExit
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): copying UAT log files...
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): RunUAT.bat ERROR: AutomationTool was unable to run successfully.
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): BUILD FAILED
PackagingResults:Error: Error Unknown Error

As you can see the lines:


MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): [zip-align] Unable to open 'E:\UE4 Projects\FlyingThunderChase 4.9\Intermediate\Android\APK\bin\FlyingThunderChase-release.apk' as zip archive
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): BUILD FAILED
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): E:\NVPACK\android-sdk-windows	ools\ant\build.xml:1139: The following error occurred while executing this line:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): E:\NVPACK\android-sdk-windows	ools\ant\build.xml:1156: The following error occurred while executing this line:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): E:\NVPACK\android-sdk-windows	ools\ant\build.xml:335: null returned: 1

appear but no APK file is found in the destination it speaks of. I’m so puzzled by this as I’ve been able to make two release builds yesterday just fine. But now, when I just changed the version numbering and nothing else about the project settings it suddenly does this to me. Anyone got a clue as to what I can do to solve this?

I have the following settings in the launcher:

What am I doing wrong?

Apparently the solution to this issue was to get the Android installation file found in the Engines Extra folder and then install on top of everything else I had with a “Full Install” instead of Standard.

I have somewhat similer issue … package fails … please help