UE 5.3 on Apple Silicon - packaging / quick preview not working

On my M2 macbook the project packaging for Android is not working, at least the packaging for the quick preview on a physical device is stuck with ‘launching’.

There are no error messages in the logs when I do packaging or cooking only. However, the created Android apk is much too small compared to packaging done on Windows.

There is an icon on my Android device, but starting failed with the message ‘failed to open descriptor file’.

There must be something missing or misconfigured with the Android SDK or project. I follwed various suggestions how that issue could be fixed but nothing so far worked.

Android-Packaging Macos