The android issue: com.android.billingclient:billing:VERSION

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As usual, google decided to integrate something new breaking everything in the process...

Just received the requirement to update my project to a new billing API(to 7) and SDK(to 34) if you have problems, like I had, here is how I fixed everything(at least there are no errors during the upload to google play):

I am using UE5.1 for my project, target SDK change is still should be performed in the manifest file (look how it is done here) I recommend setting target Target SDK Version to 35

And for the billing info:
I edited the file OnlineSubsystemGooglePlay_UPL.xml it is in the folder UE_5.1\Engine\Plugins\Online\Android\OnlineSubsystemGooglePlay\Source there I changed line com.android.billingclient:billing:5.0.0 to com.android.billingclient:billing:7.0.0 (actually don’t think this helped but changed for good measure)

In the manifest file from Target SDK change I have added the line com.android.billingclient:billing:7.0.0 (I believe this is what helped)

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Hi. So your ManifestRequirementsOverride.txt file looks something like this right?

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="26" android:targetSdkVersion="35" />
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
com.android.billingclient:billing:7.0.0

I also have a weird issue where it crashes on playing the game giving a FATAL EXCEPTION: main. Would you know anything regarding this?

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Looks like adding ManifestRequirementsOverride.txt is causing the crash. But changing the target sdk in the normal project settings doesn’t allow the app to open. Quite a conundrum.

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I guess the only true way to work with such problems is to transfer the game to a recent engine version.